2026-07-14T10:51:15-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：凯尔西·霍夫曼（Kelsie Hoffman）
2026年7月14日 / 美国东部时间上午10:51 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
美国足球明星福拉林·巴洛贡周二在接受采访时表示，尽管国际足联颇具争议地取消了他在美国对阵比利时的比赛中的红牌禁赛，让他得以重返球队，他对此感到高兴，但他早就知道这一决定“会引发巨大争议”。
“我几乎能从队友们身上感受到一丝紧张，因为这件事太过罕见了。但随着比赛临近，我尽量尽我所能专注于比赛，”巴洛贡周二在《CBS早间新闻》中说道。
这位25岁的前锋在世界杯淘汰赛首轮美国对阵波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的比赛中拿到红牌。这张红牌不仅意味着他被驱逐出这场32强赛，还导致他缺席美国队的下一场比赛。
巴洛贡表示，他拿到红牌时“整个人都懵了”，并不认同这次判罚。
“如果某件事并非故意为之……那就绝不应该被判定为红牌，”巴洛贡说，“这只是一起不幸的事件，我认为，这给我们带来了本不必承受的巨大压力。”
尽管下半场大部分时间都少打一人，美国男足还是以2-0击败了波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那。
赛后，特朗普总统致电国际足联主席，要求对针对巴洛贡的有争议判罚进行复查。
“我要求进行复查，因为我不认为那是一次犯规，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室参加完一场无关活动后说道，“我认为那只是两名优秀运动员撞在一起，缠在了一起。”
2026年7月1日，在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉举行的世界杯32强赛中，美国队的福拉林·巴洛贡对波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那队的塔里克·穆哈雷莫维奇犯规，该动作随后被复核并判罚红牌。迈克尔·斯蒂尔/盖蒂图片社
国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺证实特朗普确实打过电话，但他表示国际足联纪律委员会已经在对这张红牌进行审查，总统的电话并未影响这一决定。
国际足联取消巴洛贡一场禁赛的决定引发了强烈批评。
但在这场争议中，巴洛贡表示队友们给了他“很多安慰”。
“这不是我能改变的事情，”他说，“这只是一起不幸的事件，却给了我信心。”
他获准出战对阵比利时的比赛，后者在16强赛中以4-1大胜美国。尽管赛前存在争议，巴洛贡表示美国队已经做好准备，能够将“情绪与手头的工作分开”。
“在我们得知我将重返球队的最初公告后，要做到情绪分离其实并不太难，”巴洛贡说，“我想你也能看到，对阵比利时的比赛确实非常艰难，这可能会让人们忽略我们是否专注于比赛。但……我知道我们在赛前全神贯注。”
团结美国球迷
美国男足击败波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的胜利，是该国自2002年以来首次在世界杯淘汰赛阶段获胜。
巴洛贡表示，“能成为其中一员太棒了”，他认为这支球队“能够团结整个国家”。
“我想你能看到有多少球迷、多少年轻孩子真正被这场比赛吸引，”他说。
对他而言，征程尚未结束。巴洛贡表示，他期待能代表美国参加下一届世界杯。
Folarin Balogun says he knew FIFA decision to lift red card suspension would “cause a lot of controversy”
2026-07-14T10:51:15-0400 / CBS News
By Kelsie Hoffman
July 14, 2026 / 10:51 AM EDT / CBS News
U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun said in an interview Tuesday that while he was happy to rejoin his team following FIFA’s divisive decision to lift his red card suspension for the team’s match against Belgium, he knew it was “going to cause a lot of controversy.”
“I could almost see within my teammates a bit of nerves because it was something that’s so unique. But the closer we got to the game, I tried to just focus as best as I can,” Balogun told “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old striker received a red card during the first round of the World Cup knockout stage when the U.S. took on Bosnia and Herzegovina. The red card meant not just an ejection from the round of 32 game, but also a suspension for the team’s next game.
Balogun said he “was in shock” when he got the red card and didn’t agree with the call.
“When something is not intentional … it should never be a red card,” Balogun said. “So it was just an unfortunate situation and I think, you know, it put a lot more pressure on us than we needed. “
Despite being down a player for much of the second half, the U.S. men went on to win the match against Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-0.
Afterward, President Trump called the head of FIFA and asked for the controversial call against Balogun to be reviewed.
“I asked for a review because I didn’t think it was a foul,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office after an unrelated event. “I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled.”
Folarin Balogun of the U.S. fouls Tarik Muharemovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was later reviewed and awarded as a red card during the FIFA World Cup Round of 32 match, on July 1, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. Michael Steele/Getty Images
FIFA President Gianni Infantino would confirm Mr. Trump called him, but he said the FIFA Disciplinary Committee was already reviewing the red card and the president’s call did not impact the decision.
FIFA’s decision to lift Balogun’s one-game ban drew heavy criticism.
But amid the controversy, Balogun said his teammates provided him with “a lot of reassurance.”
“It wasn’t something I could change,” he said. “It was just a situation that was unfortunate, which gave me confidence.”
He was permitted to play against Belgium, which dominated the U.S. in the round of 16, winning 4-1. Despite the controversy ahead of the match, Balogun said the U.S. was prepared and able to separate “emotion from the job at hand.”
“It is not something I think was too difficult to be able to separate once we kind of got over the initial announcement that I would be back on the team,” Balogun said. “I think you saw, definitely, it was a difficult game against Belgium, and that can kind of overshadow whether we were focused on not. But … I know we had full concentration going into the game.”
Uniting U.S. fans
The U.S. men’s national team’s victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina was its first World Cup knockout round win since 2002.
Balogun said “it was amazing to be part of it” and he feels the team was “able to unite the country.”
“I think you could see how many fans and how many young kids were really captured by it,” he said.
For him, the journey isn’t over. Balogun said he expects to play for the U.S. in the next World Cup.
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