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Nomyth:
One can only imagine what will happen to the ref that gave Balogun a red, he might hv had is last engagement with FIFA.

Meanwhile...

AndSunGorilla:
There are spots that are no go areas though.

Napoleon55:
Brazil is so ordinary now that just any team can defeat them in a competitive match.
The same with Nigeria if not for the coming of Chelle,ours is better because is not for lack of talent but administrative and managerial problems.

For now,no minor can mess up with us without getting hammered, the likes of DR Congo and Cape Verde cannot be considered to be minors anymore

Toylove:
https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/2073850633703068004?s=46

Now the Belgian federation has released this statement.
I wonder what precedence it will set.

mank1234:
Kudos the the Belgian FA.
It's indeed a wrong precedent.
First Canada refused a player entry.
Now US got a red card suspension.
Tomorrow, it will be result cancelation.

Napoleon55:
Problem is not even that FIFA rescinded the suspension, but for allowing Trump to influence the course of it.

Trump is a joker,his second coming have only been trouble

TheSuperNerd:
He took the captain band when Kane subbed off on 90mins. Lol.

Goke7:
Don’t know how true I hear the baba don tell fifa too say im country must finish top 3!

Make we just pray we no go see Afcon title saga part 2 for this world cup

Trump on Balogun: "I saw the play, and I'm a person that loves sports ... that wasn't a foul. That wasn't even an infraction ... this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call that nobody could believe ... he's our best player, or one of our best… pic.twitter.com/YfIqb1JA4u

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 6, 2026

Napoleon55:
Problem is not even that FIFA rescinded the suspension, but for allowing Trump to influence the course of it.

Trump is a joker,his second coming have only been trouble

Amedino99:
Fifa cant even hide behind judicial kinikan when the man is there himself blabbing to the world that he was the one that pressured and "talked" to infantino to change the decision

Trump on Balogun: "I saw the play, and I'm a person that loves sports ... that wasn't a foul. That wasn't even an infraction ... this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call that nobody could believe ... he's our best player, or one of our best… pic.twitter.com/YfIqb1JA4u

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 6, 2026

9JAMac10:
FIFA officially rejects Belgium’s appeal against the suspension of Folarin Balogun’s one-match ban

9JAMac10:
Portugal vs Spain? More like Cristiano Ronaldo vs his former neighbors. I foresee penalty shootout to end this game and Portugal to prevail. .

Goke7:
Truth is we can host as our insecurity now is mostly in rural areas and not in cities that will host the matches.

The major issue is the media and how we project ourselves as a country. Many will also argue it’s a waste of public funds when many are hungry

NasirIbnLaAhad:
What have we ever hosted besides youth tournaments in the past 20 years? And it honestly boggles my mind how some of you keep glossing over the fact that FIFA's hosting bar has risen sharply since Nigeria's biggest tournaments (2009 U-17 World Cup, for instance). Recent bids have shown the scale now expected. How many FIFA accredited stadiums does Nigeria have today? Just one, and that's the one in Uyo. Or you think Uyo alone can host an entire CHAN tournament, not to talk of AFCON? Citing past hosting experience without accounting for that gap in scale is comparing apples to oranges.

Anyway, my main focus was your framing of media as the problem of Nigeria hosting. Arguing that the media is ruining our hosting prospects is only tenable for image problems, not for engineering and logistical ones. FIFA and CAF inspectors don't file match reports off public sentiments. They will physically walk through your stadiums and check your pitch quality, floodlights, changing rooms, hotel capacity, road networks, airport logistics etc etc. If the infrastructure fails, no amount of "good PR" changes what an inspector notes down about your facilities.

minfelix:
NSC/NFF/Federal Government should give us atleast 3/4 Uyos across the federation so we can host tournaments

TheSuperNerd:
Tick tock.... tick tock... tick tock... ⏳️

A big battle. A clash of 2 of my Pre-tournament top 5 favorites and 2 of my overall 12 top sides selections of favs, darkhorses and outside force.

I tip Spain to win this classic but we will see whether the football gods agree with me or not pertaining this one game involving one of the G.O.A.Ts.

Till then....

M7eve:
The state govt. of Uyo have been crying about the high cost of maintenance of this stadium. I really wonder how much the state government budgets for this that they feel can be utilized else where. If they do hand over the contract to maintain the stadium to another company I wonder how that will work out. Plus I believe the government gets good revenue from football tourism
cos on every matchdays hotels will be bóoked. As well as other social incentives, before the end of the year the SE might play three times there.

Odunayaw:
Is Oyazarbal high?

Odunayaw:
Who won our penalty at afcon 2023 SF

Whose goals got us to WC playoff in the first place?

Odunayaw:
Akwa Ibom state gov cannot fold it's hands and wait only for SE games.
They should lobby to host National sports festival, athletics meet and the likes.

Goke7:
England wants same too 😂

TheSuperNerd:
I hope the whole world sees that such will never happen at a Euros or Afcon tournament. A red card is automatic suspension for the next game no matter the stage. The Balogun incident is a first and Infantino just made a mess of one of Football's surest rules.

Trump and US obviously has him by the balls so nothing surprising anyway.