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You're in NYC. Just go into any downtown bar on a Thurs or Fri (when the bridge and tunnel girls are out) and happen to drop that you work at a hedge fund. You'll do fine.

Don't live in the financial district if you can help it. Even if (especially if) you work there. Its dead on weekends except for tourists and there's nothing really down there. Go somewhere interesting- even a 10 minute train ride will take you to lower east side, Tribeca, little Italy, etc. Even Brooklyn. Get a flavor for the real NY - you won't get that in a brand new condo in Financial District.

Stunning comeback by Argentina. @raveslayer, have you recovered yet?

It says the FA reached out to him to see if they'd support the time change. He said no.

I completely agree with that. Which is why FIFA probably would have acted unilaterally anyways. They need the viewers in the US.

I completely agree with that. Which is why FIFA probably would have acted unilaterally anyways. They need the viewers in the US.

So that was a unilateral decision by the governing body. No idea if it was right or wrong but im guessing the Argentinean president didn't call FIFA. The point is not whether FIFA got it right or wrong its that the US looks like sore losers when they would have had most of the world agreeing with them.

Only because its amazing how he manages to fuck up everything he gets involved with, usually making the US look foolish.

Because the ruling only came after intervention by the US President (and FIFA Peace Prize recipient). If FIFA did it unilaterally, great. But does anyone still think it was unilateral? Hence the asterisk.

"Unilaterally" is doing a lot of work in this case.

Im far from a FIFA expert but was just going by the fact that they have an Appeals Committee and Belgiums response: "To date, the RBFA has still not received any grounds for this decision, nor has it received the information it has been requesting since the start of this procedure for a copy of the decision and the motivation declaring the player eligible as well as the referee’s report. Which is a breach of FIFA regulations"

I have yet to see anyone suggest that it was a good, fair call. And if it was overturned under the normal appeal process, everyone would probably have gone "good" and it wouldnt be an issue. Its the fact that FIFA bypassed the appeal process and didn't give Belgium a fair chance to respond that is the issue. Not to mention that all of that happened after the President (and FIFA Peace Prize winner) publicly announced that he called the FIFA head to overturn it. Ironically most people would have been on the US's side on this and now, as you point out, the US will have a big asterisk next to their name regardless of outcome.

Following the rules is acting like cowards but having your president call the head of FIFA is integrity? As @Castanza pointed out, it is the US that are going to have the asterisk next to their name here not Belgium. We look like sore losers regardless of how bad the original call.

So the reporting is wrong? Looked pretty factual. You could find 10 other sources for the same info.

They are lobbying to have the rules followed. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7424790/2026/07/06/folarin-balogun-red-belgium-explanation/