{"id":75626,"date":"2026-07-02T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/will-folarin-baloguns-world-cup-red-card-be-struck-off-no\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:00:53","slug":"will-folarin-baloguns-world-cup-red-card-be-struck-off-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/will-folarin-baloguns-world-cup-red-card-be-struck-off-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Folarin Balogun\u2019s World Cup red card be struck off? No"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Automatic one-game ban for red card cannot be appealed<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US can only appeal to change length of ban if increased<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Folarin Balogun\u2019s red card was the only damper on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jul\/01\/usa-v-bosnia-and-herzegovina-world-cup-2026-last-32-live\">United States\u2019 2-0 win<\/a> over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday night to reach the World Cup last 16.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by referee Raphael Claus to give the US forward a straight red in the 64th minute after a VAR check on a tackle to the ankle of Tarik Muharemovi\u0107 means that Balogun will not be able to play against Belgium on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/01\/folarin-balogun-red-card-world-cup-appeal-usmnt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic one-game ban for red card cannot be appealed US can only appeal to change length of ban if increased Folarin Balogun\u2019s red card was the only damper on the United States\u2019 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday night to reach the World Cup last 16. The decision by referee Raphael Claus to &#8230; <a title=\"Will Folarin Balogun\u2019s World Cup red card be struck off? No\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/will-folarin-baloguns-world-cup-red-card-be-struck-off-no\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Will Folarin Balogun\u2019s World Cup red card be struck off? No\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}