Balogun will be available to play for US men's soccer vs. Belgium

[Hank South]

Huge development! 

[Caden Kuykendall]

Let’s go

[GoHorns1]

Fantastic!

[HonkEm]

That's great news...Thks Hank

This was really Weird

The strangest part isn’t even that Balogun’s playing - it’s that FIFA basically admitted their own rules are optional if they feel like it. For two days every official line was, “Red‑card suspensions cannot be appealed.” Full stop. Then suddenly Article 27 gets pulled out of the attic like some forgotten cheat code and poof, the ban is suspended.

So yeah, the takeaway isn’t “Balogun is available.” It’s “FIFA has a magic button they pretend doesn’t exist until they need it. This is all starting to feel like the NCAA all over again 😀

Edited 4 hours ago by HonkEm

[Dawson Yarbrough]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸let’s gooooo🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Migas & Fajitas]

[PaulieD]

3 hours ago, HonkEm said:

That's great news...Thks Hank

This was really Weird

The strangest part isn’t even that Balogun’s playing - it’s that FIFA basically admitted their own rules are optional if they feel like it. For two days every official line was, “Red‑card suspensions cannot be appealed.” Full stop. Then suddenly Article 27 gets pulled out of the attic like some forgotten cheat code and poof, the ban is suspended.

So yeah, the takeaway isn’t “Balogun is available.” It’s “FIFA has a magic button they pretend doesn’t exist until they need it. This is all starting to feel like the NCAA all over again 😀

Something tells me that FIFA didn't want the extra publicity that this was growing into.  

Also - the play of Bosnia was borderline rugby-like.  Pulling on jerseys, extremely physical.  Yet when our chap gets tangled up with theirs they whip out the red card.