This post was originally published on Politico.
The news that Folarin Balogun would be eligible to suit up against Belgium Monday night was met with near-universal celebration across the United States.
Just don’t ask Belgian fans in the seat of U.S. power.
POLITICO caught up with several of them at the Belgian embassy’s watch party at Wunder Garten, a trendy bar in Washington’s NoMa neighbourhood.
“I had to keep up my vomiting,” said Johan Hamels, an Ottawa resident from Leuven in Washington on a business trip. “Rules are rules. Every team is briefed by FIFA. And for every game, it’s in one of their slides. That you
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