So… after the ridiculous peace prize trump is now even forcing FIFA to manipulate the game in their favour.

If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA. We should have never even accepted to play in trumpistan

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    I’m going to preface this with a disclaimer that I despise the capitalism and fascism the United States government and by extension a significant portion of our population currently represents.

    But your take is just biased opinion of hatred for the current administration or our bandwagon of ignorant fans that have no respect for the game. Anyone who watches world football knows that this United States team is undeniably talented. Are they France, England, Spain, Argentina in terms of pitch to bench talent? No. There’s more technical ability on all of those teams, but the U.S. almost certainly has more fitness and athleticism than all of them and enough talent to use it to our advantage. This isn’t the U.S. of decades past. They have a legitimate chance at making the semi finals where I’d predict we would be knocked out by France. This American squad is legitimately very good. We beat Paraguay handily 4-1 and it wasn’t as close as the score suggests. That same Paraguay team eliminated Germany.

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      Fair, but now the country got caught cheating, they should be thrown out like Russia got thrown out of the Olympics . Not fair to the athletes, but this is the Trumpstain

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      Unfortunately all that effort is for naught now that Trump has officially been revealed to be pulling strings behind the curtains for their benefit.

      Even the nicest, most delicious hamburger ever made still gets tossed out when it gets shit on it.