{"id":75693,"date":"2026-07-03T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/its-been-surreal-usmnts-folarin-balogun-moves-on-from-controversial-red-card\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:57:07","slug":"its-been-surreal-usmnts-folarin-balogun-moves-on-from-controversial-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/its-been-surreal-usmnts-folarin-balogun-moves-on-from-controversial-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s been surreal\u2019: USMNT\u2019s Folarin Balogun moves on from controversial red card"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Striker\u2019s one-match ban will not be increased<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Balogun says yellow card would have been fair<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Pepi and Wright among options against Belgium<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Folarin Balogun fielded questions on the morning of his 25th birthday, though the cards being discussed weren\u2019t filled with kind notes and two-dollar bills.<\/p>\n<p>Per Fifa rules, the striker was unable to speak to the media following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/01\/usa-bosnia-and-herzegovina-game-report-world-cup\">United States\u2019 World Cup last-32 triumph<\/a> over Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he opened the scoring in a commanding 2-0 win but was sent off after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/01\/folarin-balogun-red-card-world-cup-appeal-usmnt\">receiving a red card<\/a> in the second half.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/03\/folarin-balogun-red-card-suspension-belgium-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striker\u2019s one-match ban will not be increased Balogun says yellow card would have been fair Pepi and Wright among options against Belgium Folarin Balogun fielded questions on the morning of his 25th birthday, though the cards being discussed weren\u2019t filled with kind notes and two-dollar bills. Per Fifa rules, the striker was unable to speak &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018It\u2019s been surreal\u2019: USMNT\u2019s Folarin Balogun moves on from controversial red card\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/its-been-surreal-usmnts-folarin-balogun-moves-on-from-controversial-red-card\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018It\u2019s been surreal\u2019: USMNT\u2019s Folarin Balogun moves on from controversial red card\">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-75693","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\/75693","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=75693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}