{"id":75779,"date":"2026-07-05T19:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/mauricio-pochettino-praises-fifa-for-balogun-u-turn-we-celebrate-the-decision\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:54:52","slug":"mauricio-pochettino-praises-fifa-for-balogun-u-turn-we-celebrate-the-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/mauricio-pochettino-praises-fifa-for-balogun-u-turn-we-celebrate-the-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino praises Fifa for Balogun U-turn: \u2018We celebrate the decision\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/05\/folarin-balogun-red-card-suspension-lifted-usmnt-belgium-world-cup\">Trump called Infantino to reverse Balogun ban<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US plays Belgium in World Cup last 16 on Monday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino hailed Fifa\u2019s shock decision to suspend Folarin Balogun\u2019s one-game ban on Sunday, reiterating his claim that the call to issue the US striker a red card was harsh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone that really loves the sport and trusts ethics and integrity, I think we celebrate all that decision,\u201d Pochettino said. \u201cWe were punished enough against Bosnia Herzegovina to play with 10 men for 30 minutes [because of] a decision that was completely unfair. \u2026 99.9% of people agree there was an unfair red card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/05\/mauricio-pochettino-usmnt-belgium-balogun-red-card-fifa-reversal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump called Infantino to reverse Balogun ban US plays Belgium in World Cup last 16 on Monday Mauricio Pochettino hailed Fifa\u2019s shock decision to suspend Folarin Balogun\u2019s one-game ban on Sunday, reiterating his claim that the call to issue the US striker a red card was harsh. \u201cEveryone that really loves the sport and trusts &#8230; <a title=\"Mauricio Pochettino praises Fifa for Balogun U-turn: \u2018We celebrate the decision\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/mauricio-pochettino-praises-fifa-for-balogun-u-turn-we-celebrate-the-decision\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mauricio Pochettino praises Fifa for Balogun U-turn: \u2018We celebrate the decision\u2019\">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-75779","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\/75779","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=75779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}