Trump: I got Balogun's red card overturned

Donald Trump has admitted lobbying Gianni Infantino to overturn a US red card at the World Cup, in a phone call that has plunged Fifa into crisis.

In a press conference in the Oval Office on Monday, the US president said he asked for a “review”, because he “didn’t think it was a foul”.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/07/05/president-trump-delighted-fifa-cancel-folarin-baloguns-ban/

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