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Calls for Fifa boss to resign as Trump creates World Cup 'crisis'
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9:05Now PlayingLBC spoke to Matt Hardy, City AM's deputy sport editor on the controversy surrounding the decision by FIFA to revoke the US' Folarin Balogun's red card.
Donald Trump's intervention to have the USA's star striker's ban overturned has sparked a massive World Cup crisis - and the host nation was dumped out anyway in a humiliating 4-1 defeat to Belgium
Calls are growing for the boss of FIFA Gianni Infantino to resign after he decided to allow striker Folarin Balogun's automatic one-match ban for getting a red card to be pushed back so he could start against Belgium, after speaking to Donald Trump and other US government officials.
It made little difference as the USA were defeated 4-1 by the European side and knocked out of the cup last night.
UEFA, Europe’s governing body for the sport, yesterday accused FIFA of undermining the integrity of the World Cup.
It has emerged that after both Mr Trump and Andrew Giuliani, executive director of the White House's World Cup task force, spoke to Mr Infantino by phone, the automatic one-match suspension was postponed.
Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, politicians and football bodies have been left furious over Trump lobbying Fifa.
Klopp said: “This is our sport, not theirs.
“If Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino really sorted this out between themselves, it is madness; it calls everything into question.”
Calls for Infantino to resign have followed from senior MPs, campaigners and David Bernstein, the former Football Association chairman.
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