Trump addresses FIFA's decision on USA star Folarin Balogun's World Cup suspension

President Donald Trump said Monday he asked FIFA to review the decision to give U.S. men’s soccer team star Folarin Balogun a red card during last week’s win over Bosnia and Herzegovina in the World Cup knockout stage.

Balogun was given a red card after a VAR review to look at a play in which Balogun stepped on the ankle of a defender. He would have been suspended for the team’s match against Belgium but FIFA decided to suspend the one-game ban. A source told Fox News that Trump asked FIFA President Gianni Infantino to have the organization review it.

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DOWNLOAD NOW!Trump addressed the controversy in the Oval Office."All I did was, I asked for a review, because I didn’t think it was a foul," the president said.

"And again, I’m good at this stuff. I didn’t think it was a foul. I thought it was two great athletes who crashed into each other and got entangled.

That was not a guy punching somebody in the face or anything that would be different."I think it’s a terrible … if they wouldn’t allow a top player, maybe the best, maybe among the best on the team, to play, I think it would have had a big stain.

I relayed it. I didn’t tell him what to do. I don’t believe he made the decision.

I think it was a committee that made the decision and they made the right decision because, No. 1, it wasn’t a foul and you want to see a game with your best players."Trump said the feeling would be the same if Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Harry Kane would have been given a red card in a similar way.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMHe also took issue with the call itself."If you would have taken him out, I think it would have really stained this incredible championship," Trump continued.

"We gotta have our best players and Belgium, Belgium’s got a great team by the way. We have our best players and they have to have their best. If we win or we lose, it’s fair.

Otherwise, let’s say we lost to them, then we lost