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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - WH in-town pool report #8/ More detailed quotes on World Cup 🏌️
Here are more detailed quotes from the section where POTUS talked about the Folarin Balogun red card and hosting the World Cup generally:
"I spoke to Gianni [Infantino], who's highly respected, who's produced the most successful World Cup in history by, they say, four times. This isn't just a success. I actually said, 'Gianni, we've got all these games. Each one is turning out to be a Super Bowl.' And we have all these games. You know, when you think of it, every game is like a Super Bowl.
"I watched last night. What a game that was with Mexico and England. Two countries I don't know the players, although I think Kane is a great player. You see, I play golf with him and I like him a lot. He's a good golfer. He's really great. But I watched. You couldn't take your eyes off the game.
"I said Gianni, you have all these games because they added games in a country where it's not our main sport, to put it mildly. And this has been four times more successful he told me last night the numbers are four times greater.
"They think 50 or 60 million people are going to be watching the game tonight. These are getting to be Super Bowl numbers. But you have a game tonight and they're projecting a minimum of 50 million people watching a game; we call it soccer, it's called football, I guess, but we can't really call it football because there's a little confusion. So you call it soccer; we're the only ones that do that. But we have football and football's great. But I've never seen anything like it.
"So I saw the play and I'm a person that loves sports and was a good athlete. I understand sports really well really well and that wasn't a foul. That wasn't even an infraction. That was two guys running full speed that happened to crash into each other.
"You can't take your foot and properly place it on somebody else's foot when you're going no, these were two great athletes that got tangled up and this referee, who is a little bit suspect, if you check his past I don't want to say that because I don't like to create controversy but very suspect. If you like, I'll provide you with the past.
"He made a call that nobody could believe; you know, even people on the other side, they said, 'Oh, we got lucky, wow!' And it was very interesting: they say they don't show 'em in slow motion and I never realised that, I never heard of that before. But they're not allowed to review in slow motion 'cos it's so different, 'cos you'll take one little quarter of a second and you'll see that a hand is touching a neck or you see something. Whereas when you see it in fast motion, it looked like two guys collided, which is really what happened. They got sort of entangled.
"He didn't do anything wrong. He's our best player or one of our best players and he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant. I didn't think it meant much. Then I started hearing that that means he can't play in the next game; at least in the next game. I said, boy, that's a big you know, if it happened to another player it would have been unfair but when they take your best player or just about, they have some great players and they say, you can't play, that's very unfair.
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