{"id":154148,"date":"2026-07-06T23:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154148"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:16:42","slug":"after-trump-intervention-balogun-plays-vs-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154148","title":{"rendered":"After Trump intervention, Balogun plays vs. Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>American forward Folarin Balogun will <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USMNT\/status\/2074260763062243457?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">start tonight for the USMNT<\/a> against Belgium in the World Cup last-16 knockout match. Balogun was sent off in the previous round against Bosnia and Herzegovina and was due to serve a one-match suspension tonight \u2014 before world football governing body FIFA unusually lifted the ban following an effort from Trump administration officials. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/06\/world-cup-2026\/folarin-balogun-united-states-belgium-world-cup-00988380\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>Politics, World Cup<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics American forward Folarin Balogun will start tonight for the USMNT against Belgium in the World Cup last-16 knockout match. Balogun was sent off in the previous round against&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}