Former Socceroo Craig Foster says Belgium has saved what would have been a 'tainted' World Cup by defeating the United States. Foster says most of the world would have been cheering on Belgium after Donald Trump intervened with FIFA's President Gianni Infantino to suggest a star American player's red card suspension be deferred. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-07/world-cup-live-blog-portugal-vs-spain-usa-vs-belgium/106885332 Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia
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FIFA is a disgrace
Belgium played on behalf of a lot of countries of the world. Everyone was cheering for Belgium
I feel as though justice was served. Well done Belgium.
Belgian for a day 🇧🇪 Justice
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations Belgium, from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🐨🐨🦘🦘
The world is healing. At least for once corruption lost.
Tonight we were all Belgians! Congratulations from Germany!
Belgium won but doesn’t excuse the fact that fifa showed their true colours yet again but this time blatantly out in the open like it was nothing. Love football, love the World Cup but hate fifa so much. Such a shame because my kids have now seen them for what they are and this will taint the game for them forever. What a shame.
No matter how far Belgium makes it through the rest of the tournament, they will already be remembered as the heroes we needed.
Belgium has won and the corruption and the cheats have lost. Thanks Belgium for making the whole world happy. May you go all the way and win the Cup.
As a belgian, I think we did already win the best price that was possible to win in this cup. A slap in both FIFA and Trump's faces, done without any violence, just by playing fair on the field, is better than any sport victory.
The world was behind Belgium . Belgium were going to win no matter who the US put on the field . The game survives. Politics lost.
The World Cup really does unite the world, everyone was Belgian yesterday. ♥️ Happy to see that everyone was rooting for fair play and justice.
8,000,000,000 people cheering for Belgium!!!
Congratulations Belgium. Thank you for kicking the Trumpster's butt! Bonjour from Canada.
Tonight we are all Belgium.
Congratulations Belgium! You saved the beautiful game!!
Belgium will start a investigation against Infantino for corruption, because this is corruption, and we hope that he will be charged and prosecute
Congratulations Belgium from Asia.❤❤❤❤
congratulations belgium! the world thanks you.