FIFA gave USMNT striker Folarin Balogun, the team’s leading goal scorer at this World Cup, a rare reprieve for the controversial red card he received on July 1 in the team’s 2-0 Round of 32 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina. By rule, Balogun was to sit out the next match, a Monday night showdown against Belgium in Seattle in the Round of 16.
So Balogun is good to go—a huge boost for the U.S. attack.
“Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post.
The thing is, Belgium really shouldn’t have a beef here. What Balogun did on the field against Bosnia did not at all scream “eject this guy from this game and make him sit the next.” Red cards, as opposed to yellow cards, are given for the worst on-field behaviors, including spitting, biting, receiving a second yellow card in the same match (Balogun did not have a prior yellow against Bosnia), denying an opposing player an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by committing a handball offense, violent conduct, and what’s known in the laws of the game as “serious foul play,” which is defined as “a tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality” or lunging at an opponent “in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent.”
Yellow cards, as opposed to red cards, are issued for, among other things, players who commit any offense “which interferes with or stops a promising attack.”
Soccer laws leave room for interpretation.
Now Balogun, the offensive juggernaut whose backstory has received its fair share of attention—he plays for the U.S. via birthright citizenship, which the Supreme Court upheld last week—is back in the lineup. That gives the Americans full force against a Belgium side that hasn’t overly impressed at this World Cup.
Sleep well in Seattle, Team USA. It’s all on the line Monday night.
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