{"id":118533,"date":"2026-07-02T03:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/will-balogun-miss-usas-round-of-16-clash-vs-belgium-after-red-card-rules-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:36:37","slug":"will-balogun-miss-usas-round-of-16-clash-vs-belgium-after-red-card-rules-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/will-balogun-miss-usas-round-of-16-clash-vs-belgium-after-red-card-rules-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Balogun miss USA&#8217;s Round of 16 clash vs Belgium after red card? Rules explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA secured a World Cup Round of 16 spot with a 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, but star striker Folarin Balogun was controversially red-carded. His dismissal, following a VAR review for stepping on an opponent&#8217;s ankle, means he&#8217;s suspended for the Belgium clash unless an appeal succeeds. Balogun, who scored his third tournament goal before the incident, remains a key player for the US.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA secured a World Cup Round of 16 spot with a 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, but star striker Folarin Balogun was controversially red-carded. His dismissal, following a VAR review for stepping on an opponent&#8217;s ankle, means he&#8217;s suspended for the Belgium clash unless an appeal succeeds. Balogun, who scored his third tournament goal&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/will-balogun-miss-usas-round-of-16-clash-vs-belgium-after-red-card-rules-explained\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Balogun miss USA&#8217;s Round of 16 clash vs Belgium after red card? Rules explained<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":118534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}