Mamdani stays mum on Balogun controversy

This post was originally published on Politico.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is playing coy about the red card reversal heard ‘round the world.

Instead of directly addressing the revocation of USMNT striker Folarin Balogun’s one-game suspension, the soccer-loving mayor posted a clip on X on Monday featuring a quote from José Mourinho, the legendary Portuguese soccer manager.

“I prefer really not to speak. If I speak — big trouble, big trouble. I don’t want to be in big trouble,” Mourinho said in the iconic 2014 clip shared by Mamdani in response to a post from a POLITICO reporter remarking that the mayor had yet to

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