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Trump, Infantino and a World Cup red card scandal explained | The Global Story
Donald Trump has revealed that he personally called Gianni Infantino, the head of Fifa, to ask him to review the red card given to United States’ star player Folarin Balogun.
The striker had been given a one-match ban after a hard tackle against Tarik Muharemovic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but the punishment was suspended in time for the US to play their last-16 match against Belgium yesterday.
The US lost the match against Belgium 4-1, but the decision to allow Balogun to play has been widely condemned across the football world.
European footballing organisation UEFA, called it, “unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable”, and former Fifa president Sepp Blatter writing on X, “Redcards are not overturned by political phone calls… Football must never become a playground for political power.”
Infantino has insisted the decision was made independently by Fifa’s “independent judicial bodies”.
On today’s Global Story podcast, Tristan Redman is joined by New Yorker staff writer Sam Knight, to explain the scandal, and how Infantino’s governance of Fifa has brought football and politics closer together.
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Chapters:
00:00 Why was Balogun’s red card overturned?
02:00 Who is Gianni Infantino?
03:30 What influence has Infantino had on Fifa?
06:30 How has Infantino’s relationship with Trump impacted football?
08:00 How much control does Infantino have?
09:52 Why was it important for Fifa to have the USA in the World Cup?
12:00 Why has this incident gone global?
13:30 Is there an inherent flaw in sport’s governance?
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Today, French cities have been given the power to implement partial curfews after violence across France over the weekend.
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for protests against falling education standards and the rising cost of living.
There were outbreaks of rioting, looting, and arson, after weeks of student-led rallies across the country.
Adam is joined by the Financial Times’ Paris bureau chief, Leila Abboud, and Politico’s chief Europe correspondent, Marion Solletty, to discuss the situation on the ground, and how the government might respond just six months before the French presidential election.
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Huge crowds have flocked to a canal in South Korea to watch a stranded shark.
Bukangi was first spotted in the waterway last month in the south-eastern city of Busan.
Now a third attempt has been made to rescue the female using nets to guide her back to the open sea.
The BBC’s Seoul correspondent Jake Kwon has been in Busan to follow the latest attempt to rescue Bukangi.
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People in the province of Alberta will vote on 19 October on whether they want to start the process of separating from the rest of Canada.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called the upcoming referendum a “dangerous bluff”, comparing it to the Brexit vote that saw the UK leave the European Union.
But supporters of Albertan independence believe that the oil-rich province has long been overlooked by decision-makers in Ottawa, the national capital, and that federal environmental policies have hindered its ability to develop its natural resources.
So, could Alberta really become its own country?
The BBC’s Nadine Yousif takes us on a journey through Alberta to talk to both supporters and opponents of separation about their hopes for the country’s future.
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Tens of thousands of people are demonstrating across France, in protest at what they say is under-investment in high schools.
Some protests over the past week in France have turned violent, as protesters and authorities clashed.
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said: “Burning down a high school does not improve the state of high school buildings. Lynching a teacher does not help replace teachers”, adding it is a “lie” to suggest the government had ordered “police repression” against demonstrators.
Our correspondents report from the scene of the protests. In this video…
0:00 – Protests in France
0:25 – Fire in Lille
0:55 – Why are students protesting?
03:27 – Teachers join protests
04:56 – Peaceful gathering in Lille
05:45 – Violence this week
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