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Trump's phone call could cost FIFA boss his head
FIFA’s Neutrality Is a Scam With a Press OfficeDonald Trump phoned Gianni Infantino after a US player’s red card, and FIFA promptly reversed the ban. That is the surface event. The real story is more serious: a supposedly independent sporting body bent toward presidential power, then pretended the bending was routine procedure. The article’s frame is right to treat the call as a scandal, but the deeper scandal is the system that made the call matter.Power, Not ProcedureThe central question is not whether Trump was rude enough to make a call. It is why a football disciplinary decision could be…
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