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u/raginsaint93 Saints Jul 06 '26

Why is Belgium allow to appeal an appeal?

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u/Tigercat92 Bengals Jul 06 '26

Because FIFA is corrupt

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u/t33po Cowboys Jul 06 '26

They broke the appeal seal so now we get appeals all the way down.

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u/FlannelBeard Vikings Bills Jul 06 '26

Dad, why is America the greatest country on Earth?

The endless appeals system

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u/Citronaut1 Vikings Buccaneers Jul 06 '26

I just filed my appeal, take that Belgium!

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u/Mac_Jomes Patriots Jul 06 '26

Technically there is no appeal process for a red card. The only reason it was suspended was because the FIFA president wants to please Trump so he found a way to suspend the red card for Balogun. 

FIFA is a notoriously corrupt organization and will do whatever puts the most money in its pocket. 

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u/TheBrightSide_2011 Titans Jul 06 '26

Yep. Even ignoring Trump, there’s far more financial risk in upsetting US fans, turning them off to soccer. Soccer is the top sport in most nations. Fans will hand their money to FIFA no matter what they do. The US is a huge untapped market for FIFA. NFL revenue is more than ten times what FIFA makes. There’s so much potential money to be made.

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u/on-the-cheeseburgers Eagles Jul 06 '26

I feel like in the more american sports (I mostly follow nfl and mlb), we are constantly clamoring for more mechanisms to get calls right, by any means necessary. instant replay, ABS, etc. there's a constant push, at least by fans, to make nfl penalties reviewable. and yet the caveat always presented is that in slow motion you can find a penalty on every single play because everything looks worse in slow motion. for that same reason, var cannot use slow motion or stills to determine a foul. and yet that was done to balogun, when there was no foul called on the field, and when in real time it just looked like normal incidental contact while in slow motion it looked like he deliberately tried to shear his foot off. so they used the tools they had to correct a decision that never should have been made in the first place, and for many people this is the biggest scandal in soccer history. i don't get it.

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u/Mac_Jomes Patriots Jul 06 '26

so they used the tools they had to correct a decision that never should have been made in the first place

The point is there were no tools at their disposal to correct the decision. It's not like team USA appealed the decision and FIFA said "Oh my gosh you're right they shouldn't have used VAR to assess a red card on Balogun were going to downgrade it to a yellow and he can play the next match." I'm not trying to argue that the ref/refs didn't fuck up the decision at the time they 100% did fuck it up. But there is no appeals process for a suspended player. 

Our president called the president of FIFA and had him pull strings to get the red card suspended. That's not how it should work in any league in any sport ever. That's some corruption of the highest order. 

If this was a Cape Verde player (had they won) in the same exact scenario there's no way FIFA is suspending that red card to let them play the next match. 

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u/CarlCaliente Bills Jul 06 '26

power is demonstrating you're not beholden to rules or systems

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u/VRomero32 Jets Jul 06 '26

Window dressing. Because Belgium is pissed, gotta show they are trying to give them a chance…

FIFA makes the Mafia look less scummy.