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++Sky News++ captured his words, as he explained: “”Yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I spoke to a man [Infantino] who is highly respected. I’m the one who got them to do it, not Biden. Biden was asleep.”

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[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

There is no way on God's green earth are USA making it to the final without every ref being bought up. Even then, Mbappe and France will pit 3 or 4 past USA even with a crooked ref. He'd have to disallow all of them and it he completely obvious.

[-] Furbag@pawb.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I mean you're probably right. I don't know much about the game to be able to tell who the clear favorites are. It just seems to be my luck that if I root against something the universe has a way of twisting that energy against me.

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