Source: Politics<\/p>\n
BRUSSELS \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s interference with FIFA\u2019s disciplinary measures ahead of the U.S.-Belgium match had unintended consequences: He fired up the Belgians.<\/p>\n
After limping through the group stage and first knockout round, Belgium cleaned the floor with the U.S. in the round of 16, after Trump intervened to help overturn a suspension for America\u2019s key attacker, Folarin Balogun.<\/p>\n
The Belgian squad wasted no time in trolling Trump after the match, as a viral clip from the team dressing room showed the players jiving like the U.S. president to his favorite campaign rally anthem: Y.M.C.A. by the Village People.<\/p>\n
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, a notorious soccerphobe, was then asked about Trump and the suspension saga during a key NATO military summit in Ankara.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t speak about football,\u201d De Wever said. \u201cFootball is, as they say, the most important of the non-important subjects, but it is still non-important, so I didn’t raise it,” he added, paraphrasing a remark widely attributed to soccer nut Pope John Paul II.<\/p>\n
The Belgian national soccer team social media crew was blunter in its victorious post-match summary: \u201cOverturn this,\u201d it noted pointedly<\/a>.<\/p>\n