{"id":75815,"date":"2026-07-06T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/overturn-this-victorious-belgium-throw-barb-after-balogun-red-card-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:56:39","slug":"overturn-this-victorious-belgium-throw-barb-after-balogun-red-card-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/overturn-this-victorious-belgium-throw-barb-after-balogun-red-card-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Overturn this\u2019: victorious Belgium throw barb after Balogun red-card controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/06\/usa-belgium-world-cup-2026-match-report\">Red Devils beat USA<\/a> to advance to World Cup last-eight<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Team had been angered by suspension of red card<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Belgium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/06\/usa-belgium-world-cup-2026-match-report\">Monday\u2019s 4-1 victory<\/a> over the United States was doubly sweet. They advanced to the World Cup quarter-finals, as well as overcoming what they saw as injustice off the field.<\/p>\n<p>The buildup to the match had been tinged with controversy after Fifa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/06\/belgium-appeal-fifa-lifting-folarin-balogun-red-card-ban-last-16-us-world-cup\">had suspended the red card<\/a> US striker Folarin Balogun was given in the last 32 against Bosnia and Herzegovina. That meant Balogun was free to play against Belgium instead of serving a one-match ban. When it emerged that Donald Trump had lobbied for Balogun\u2019s red card to be overturned, Belgium \u2013 and other nations \u2013 were outraged: Uefa called the decision \u201cincomprehensible and unjustifiable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/06\/belgium-reaction-victory-usa-world-cup-red-card\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Devils beat USA to advance to World Cup last-eight Team had been angered by suspension of red card For Belgium, Monday\u2019s 4-1 victory over the United States was doubly sweet. They advanced to the World Cup quarter-finals, as well as overcoming what they saw as injustice off the field. The buildup to the match &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Overturn this\u2019: victorious Belgium throw barb after Balogun red-card controversy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/overturn-this-victorious-belgium-throw-barb-after-balogun-red-card-controversy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Overturn this\u2019: victorious Belgium throw barb after Balogun red-card controversy\">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-75815","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\/75815","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=75815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}