Mayor Mamdani Agrees with Trump: ‘It Was a Cruel Red Card’ for Folarin Balogun

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MAMDANI: "Look, I think, as someone rooting for the U.S. men’s national team, I think that Flo Balogun should have never been given that red card. I thought it was a cruel red card. I also spent most of my time just thinking about the game and I think I will echo the sentiments of many that it was a very difficult night, and yet the difficulty of it doesn’t take away from our pride in the players, our pride in the team and in the fact that across the nation, people were united by not only an appreciation of what we’ve seen out there over the last few weeks, but also a recognition of the fact that we too are a soccer country and we’re so excited to see what that’s going to look like in the days and weeks and months and years to come. And if that’s true for men’s soccer, it's true for women's soccer, and it’s really exciting that, in the midst of the height of World Cup excitement, we’re making an investment that is going to outlast just these few weeks."