{"id":75820,"date":"2026-07-07T05:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/fifa-accuses-uefa-of-hypocrisy-in-latest-war-of-words-over-folarin-balogun-decision\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:03:43","slug":"fifa-accuses-uefa-of-hypocrisy-in-latest-war-of-words-over-folarin-balogun-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/fifa-accuses-uefa-of-hypocrisy-in-latest-war-of-words-over-folarin-balogun-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa accuses Uefa of hypocrisy in latest war of words over Folarin Balogun decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>It says overturning red cards is a common measure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>No talk from Uefa before about \u2018red line\u2019, Fifa states<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fifa has hit back at Uefa in the war of words over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/05\/folarin-balogun-red-card-suspension-lifted-usmnt-belgium-world-cup\">the lifting<\/a> of the USA striker Folarin Balogun\u2019s suspension by accusing it of hypocrisy in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/06\/belgium-appeal-fifa-lifting-folarin-balogun-red-card-ban-last-16-us-world-cup\">condemnation of the decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement attributed to the chair of Fifa\u2019s disciplinary committee, Mohammad Al Kamali, published before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/06\/usa-belgium-world-cup-2026-match-report\">USA\u2019s last-16 defeat by Belgium<\/a>, Fifa insisted that \u201cthe overturning of red cards is a common disciplinary measure\u201d in Uefa-affiliated leagues, \u201cyet this has never raised concerns about crossing any \u2018red line\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/07\/fifa-accuses-uefa-hypocrisy-folarin-balogun-world-cup-decision-red-card\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It says overturning red cards is a common measure No talk from Uefa before about \u2018red line\u2019, Fifa states Fifa has hit back at Uefa in the war of words over the lifting of the USA striker Folarin Balogun\u2019s suspension by accusing it of hypocrisy in its condemnation of the decision. In a statement attributed &#8230; <a title=\"Fifa accuses Uefa of hypocrisy in latest war of words over Folarin Balogun decision\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/fifa-accuses-uefa-of-hypocrisy-in-latest-war-of-words-over-folarin-balogun-decision\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fifa accuses Uefa of hypocrisy in latest war of words over Folarin Balogun decision\">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-75820","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\/75820","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=75820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}