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Some may have assumed that the world football community had moved on from United States men’s national team<\/a>\u00a0forward\u00a0<\/span>Folarin Balogun<\/a> being permitted to play against Belgium in a FIFA World Cup<\/a> round-of-16 matchup after he was shown a red card during the United States’\u00a0<\/span>2-0<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>win over Bosnia and Herzegovina in the tournament’s prior round.<\/span><\/p>\n It turns out those individuals are wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n In an interview with The Times,<\/a> Norwegian Football Federation president Lise Klaveness confirmed that she plans to pursue a formal ethics complaint over the suspension\u00a0of Balogun’s ban related to the red card.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “When you bend a rule like this, you’re on a slippery slope that will put the whole game at risk. It is a worry for the game when you compromise fundamental rules of the game,” Klaveness said, as shared by\u00a0<\/span>ESPN.<\/span><\/a> “First of all, it should not have happened. It is very important now to have honest communication around it. We all know that this verdict was influenced from external forces and did not have the proper process. We need our leader in FIFA to say that this was an error. If you start to adapt in such a way towards state leaders and state politics, you will move your behavior and the organization’s behavior, and also the red line of what states’ leaders should interfere with. And that happened.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It became known<\/span><\/a> that President Donald Trump called FIFA president Gianni Infantino to ask for a review of the suspension that Balogun received after his right foot\u00a0<\/span>landed on\u00a0the leg of Bosnia-Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic, which caused Muharemovic’s ankle to turn. While Balogun’s action seemed unintentional, some\u00a0<\/span>pointed out<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that “intent doesn\u2019t matter” regarding such a dangerous play.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nNorway plan to file ethics complaint over suspension of Folarin Balogun red card<\/h2>\n
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