Critics have pointed to the glaring irony of Donald Trump’s intervention in the 2026 FIFA World Cup to help get U.S. star Folarin Balogun’s red-card suspension overturned ahead of Monday’s Round of 16 clash with Belgium.
They noted on social media that Balogun is only eligible to play for the U.S. men’s national team because he is a birthright citizen, after an airline in 2001 denied his British citizen mother from boarding a flight home because she was too close to giving birth to him, and then gave birth in Brooklyn.
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The constitutional right that Balogun enjoys is the very same one that Trump has spent years trying to end and whose attempts to do so were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court this month.
Balogun, who plays his club soccer for Monaco in France’s Ligue 1, was sent off during the United States’ Round of 32 victory over Bosnia & Herzegovina, triggering an automatic one-match suspension.
They noted on social media that Balogun is only eligible to play for the U.S. men’s national team because he is a birthright citizen, after an airline in 2001 denied his British citizen mother from boarding a flight home because she was too close to giving birth to him, and then gave birth in Brooklyn.
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The constitutional right that Balogun enjoys is the very same one that Trump has spent years trying to end and whose attempts to do so were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court this month.
Balogun, who plays his club soccer for Monaco in France’s Ligue 1, was sent off during the United States’ Round of 32 victory over Bosnia & Herzegovina, triggering an automatic one-match suspension.
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