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In the World Cup, Belgium is playing the USA in Seattle tonight\u2014Belgium is running scared.<\/p>

Read more For Mamdani, America\u2019s \u2018greatness\u2019 comes from its money<\/a><\/p>\n

The team appealed a FIFA decision to suspend the suspension of USA star striker Folarin Balogun. Regarding the intricacies of the appeals process, the devil is in the details, but let\u2019s focus on the big picture.<\/p>\n

The USA was wronged by the original referee\u2019s decision to red card Folarin (in a previous World Cup match) which entails an automatic one-game suspension \u2014 meaning he\u2019d miss the Belgium match. FIFA dug deep and came across Article 27, which provided justification for suspending Folarin\u2019s ban.<\/p>\n

For sure, it was a messy process, and provides fodder to other teams who question FIFA\u2019s impartiality, especially given Gianni Infantino\u2019s (FIFA president) coziness with President Trump.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I can\u2019t fathom how a reversal (of the original player suspension) can be appealed \u2014 it already was! Worse still is that after having accepted Belgium\u2019s appeal of the appellate decision, FIFA cannot guarantee a final decision before tonight\u2019s kickoff. At best, the appeal will be heard just hours before. It\u2019s a big ol\u2019 klusterfuk.<\/p>

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But let\u2019s stick to the big picture: two wrongs don\u2019t make a right. Indeed, if FIFA can be this \u201cflexible\u201d in the future, that may be salubrious. Why should a player suspension be \u201cautomatic\u201d anyway?\u00a0The red card that prompted it wasn\u2019t automatic \u2014 instead, it took bizarre, even unseemly, intervention from the Video Assistant Refs.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is a learning opportunity: FIFA can add more verbiage to their precious Article 27<\/em> that provides clearer and stronger rationale for alleviating the ramifications of a preposterous red-card decision by an incompetent ref.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Belgian\u00a0soccer officials are not doing anyone, including themselves, any favors. Confusion about starting lineups and tactics prevail. Belgium was known as the Cockpit of Europe. When it comes to soccer, they are just the pits. Or should that be cocks?<\/p>

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