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FIFA Didn’t Protect Fair Play. It Proved It Can Be Bought by Influence.The IncidentFIFA has suspended Folarin Balogun’s automatic one-match ban after his red card against Bosnia and Herzegovina, and multiple reports say the reversal followed a personal call from Donald Trump to FIFA president Gianni Infantino. Belgium called the decision “astonishing.” The source article treats this as a dispute about a hard tackle and a disciplinary code. That is too small. The real story is who had enough power to bend the process.The Decision Was Made Above the FieldThe referee did not create this mess by…
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