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

Author: By Chris Sommerfeldt