00:00It was a stunning sort of win for Belgium, but I don't think this is how people are going to
00:03remember this match too much here.
00:05It's really about the politics.
00:07Yeah, and it's probably not how Belgians want to remember it.
00:10This is a big win for them.
00:11They're through to the quarterfinals.
00:12It was a pretty easy win for them.
00:14The U.S. team looked kind of lethargic, and you have to think that everything surrounding the game must have
00:19weighed on the players a little bit.
00:21And like you said, what everybody's going to remember about this game is the overturned red card.
00:26It's sort of unprecedented move by the U.S. president to intervene, interfere, to talk to the FIFA leaders and
00:34kind of get that red card overturned and Balogun reinstated.
00:39That's what everybody's going to talk about.
00:41And we will be talking about the implications and the consequences for a long time to come, I think.
00:47Yeah, the backlash we're still kind of tracking here this morning, right?
00:50The likes of UEFA saying that, you know, FIFA did cross a red line.
00:53I mean, walk us through.
00:54I mean, FIFA has had, you know, I guess you could say scandals before of corruption.
01:01You know, what is going to be the future of this institution going to look like now, given, you know,
01:06there was a lot of questions around the relationship that FIFA, the president, did have with President Trump?
01:11Yeah, and I think that's the last question that Gianni Infantino wanted to discuss around this World Cup.
01:18He came in as president of FIFA promising to clean up corruption, left by his predecessor, Sepp Blatter, who had
01:27a lot of controversy.
01:28Blatter was one of the people who called out this decision and saying that this crossed the line, this went
01:33overboard.
01:34And we have a lot of voices around the world of football, from Jurgen Klopp, the legendary coach, to other
01:40people, other football leaders around the world saying that this has gone too far.
01:44And as you said, even UEFA, one of the member organizations of FIFA, has said this is too much.
01:49And Infantino right now is facing some calls for his resignation.
01:54So during a World Cup, which is supposed to be a celebration of the sport, a crowning achievement for any
02:00FIFA leader to be shrouded in that sort of controversy, that is not the look he wanted.
02:06I'm wondering, what are the repercussions, right?
02:09If FIFA itself is the governing body of the sport, I mean, are there ways to kind of explore, I
02:15don't know, any sort of indiscretion?
02:17I mean, is there a governing body above FIFA that can look at this issue further?
02:23I think it's going to have to come down to FIFA itself, FIFA members and, you know, the delegates there.
02:28There will be meetings after the World Cup where they will have to evaluate the way the World Cup went
02:32and the way the organizers have done.
02:36And I'm sure there will be a lot of questions to Infantino about what he thinks went down and how
02:43he wants to go forward.
02:44I wouldn't be surprised if those calls for his resignation would get a bit louder after this.
02:49How's your bracket looking, by the way?
02:51Don't ask.
02:52All right.
02:53Who could still win, you think?
02:55I don't know.
02:56I know my friend Manu is watching, so I'm going to say Spain.
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