July 6, 2026 • 10 mins
Ryan, Dana, and Nathalie Rodriguez recap Lionel Messi and Argentina national football team defeating Cape Verde 3-2 at the FIFA World Cup. They also discuss Folarin Balogun being available for the United States men's national soccer team match against Belgium and play a listener Talkback from the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Ryan Gorman Show podcast presented by Vera and VERA
Accident Attorneys from Tampa.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning, Well Inter Miami's Leonelle Messi's
World Cup dream stays alive after eight dramatic five goal
thriller of Hintina moving on to the round of sixteen.
After literally an edge of your seat drama unfolding on
the pitch, Messi ignited the crowd early, scoring a brilliant
(00:28):
trademark curwing free kick in the top left corner, putting
a Henthena on the board. Cape Verd fought back valiantly.
I mean, hats off to them. They really gave Argentina
a run for their money, matching l'abicellest a blow for
blow and equalizer for equalizer. But the definitive highlight goes
to Inner Miami's own midfielder, Roldego de Paul, who smashed
(00:51):
a spectacular twenty five yard volley in the eighty second minute,
securing that three to two victory. A Henttena's moving to
the knockouts while Miami Stadium is paring to host the
tournament quarterfinals this Saturday. And I'm sure you saw the game.
I don't know if you did, if you were in
New York and watching it was really probably, hands down
(01:11):
so far the most exciting game of the World Cup.
If not, it will probably take that that honor when
the tournament is all said and done.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, there were some really great matches lately. For
someone like me who is not a big soccer fan,
took me. It took me a second to kind of
get into things here with this World Cup. Some of
the matches. It was the I think Germany Paraguay matchup.
I was watching that at a bar in New York City.
(01:40):
I mean it was and I think that makes a
difference too, when you're at an establishment where everybody's watching
the matches.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, that's it was when I went to the yeah, yeah,
it's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And then with the with the game, the Argentina k
Bird game, I didn't watch it, but I went when
I went to my friend's house on the fourth She's like,
oh my gosh, you got to go back and watch
the highlights because it was an incredible game. And you know,
Cape Verd, this tiny little country of like what four
hundred thousand people or something, they just really gave Argentina,
you know, one of the best teams and un for
their money. Yeah, how amazing it was.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It was.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Did you see after the match you had Messi He
ended up dismissing rumors of a romantic relationship with a
TV reporter from Argentina. Stupid. Yeah, yeah, I guess they've
got really good chemistry and people just soon just assume.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I thought you were going to mention how how Messi
actually went over to one of the guys from Cape
Verd and told him how phenomenal he was, how proud
he was of him and the team, and how that
really like kids dream comes.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah. So last night there was a great match between
Mexico and England.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Saw that and it's crazy red card was issued there.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah yeah, and you know Mexico and their fans, they
did everything they could to win that match. Fans actually
gathered outside of England's team hotel and they set off
fireworks and played loud music and they were beating drums
ahead of the match to try to throw England off
with their sleep.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, so that they couldn't sleep.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
The fireworks thing works on not allowing people to sleep though,
because I am very sleep deprived today because people in
my neighborhood were lighting them off all night.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, that's right, but it did not work in that
instance because England won that match. And there have just
been so many stories tied to the World Cup that
have been fascinating. And then of course you've got the
big controversy involving Team USA ahead of tonight's matchup.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, it's a studying unprecedented ruling from FIFA completely reshaping
tonight's roster just hours before kickoff. You've got striker falerin
Baligan who is officially clear to play tonight against Belgium.
It was a pretty rare historic move because FIFA suspended
his automatic one match band under Article twenty seven, putting
(04:01):
him in a one year probation instead. Now, the twenty
five year old was facing a mandatory sit out after
getting a controversial straight red card against Well it was
against Bosnia last week for the controversial tackle. The video
replay showed him inadvertently stepping on the upper ankle of
a Bosnia defender. But you know, I want to like
(04:23):
play angels. Angels. We have heard on high because President
Trump picked up the phone and called faithas President Gianni
and Fantino directly challenging the call. Well, at least that's
what we're told, you know, it could have been like hey, Gianni,
what's going high?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
European football body uf UEFA blasted the move. They claimed
that FIFA crossed the red lawn, literally threatening the integrity
of the tournament, which is now set for eight o'clock
tonight in Seattle. The betting markets are practically deadlocked on
both teams, but with ballerin in it does Team usay
(05:01):
a very slight edge. And on the topic of the
red card reversal, that's not really something that we have
not seen before because even the Siano Ronaldo from Team Portugal,
he was given a red card just before the World Cup,
which would have sidelined him for the start of the tournament.
FIFA did intervene with our President Trump, allowing him to
(05:22):
serve the suspension at a later date, and just spar Look,
this is.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The World Cup. You want the best players in the
world playing in these games. He plays absolutely egregious and
I did not think that was And you don't need
to be a soccer expert to understand intent is in
play here. It's it's just like if you end up
murdering somebody, right, I mean, if you didn't mean you
(05:49):
necessarily right, yeah, exactly thirty times yeah, in ten matters.
And if you're Belgium they're complaining about this, wouldn't you
want to play Team USA?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Don't you?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Full challe? They win?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
You won against the whole team with.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The player right right. And as for President Trump's role
in this, I don't know what happened on that call,
but I'm sure at some point the President's going to
take full credit for this. Absolutely yes, Coret, and he
deserves it. This was one of his greatest accomplishments as president,
making sure the Team USA is at full strength for
(06:30):
this match.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I do have to say, record breaking fourteen red cards
have been issued in this World Cup, never before. And
then this Saturday's game in Miami is going to be
minus one team player from England, Gerald Kwanza, who got
slapped a red card yesterday's game and no one said
anything about that. Trying to get this guy back on
the pitch on Saturdays. These refs got to chill out
(06:52):
with the red cards, all right. It said, don't make
it a ref show. This is about the World Cup
and these teams.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Somebody made an AI that has the ref holding up
the red card and then the player holding up the
trump card.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's great. Natalie Rodriguez with today's top Stories. Natalie, thanks
so much.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
But we've been talking about the controversy surrounding Team USA.
FIFA suspended Falarum Belligan's one game suspension, so he's eligible
to play in tonight's World Cup Round of sixteen match
against Belgium. He was initially ruled out following a red
card in the last match Belgium. They have been granted
(07:30):
the right to appeal the ruling. This is what George Carr,
listening to US in Tampa Bay Area, had to say.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Why would Belgium be upset that the United States will
be at what we would call full strength by having
their best player available for the game. Don't you want
to beat your opponent when they're at their strongest. They
sound a little like whimps, they do.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Look, this is the World Cup, all right. You want
the best players in the world to be playing in
these mans. You don't want to hold out one of
the best players for Team USA or any other team
over something that I don't think was clear cut.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
No, it definitely wasn't. There were multiple questions about it,
whether or not it was intentional, and then whether or
not they used the instant replay to make that call,
which they're not supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, So President Trump, he personally called the president of FIFA.
And there's some differing reporting on this. Markaputo from Axios,
who we've had on the show, who I think has
really good sources within the White House. He said it
was essentially a call to the FIFA president to better
understand what was going on with all of this, that
there wasn't an actual push by the President to get
(08:43):
this suspension overturn. Now, just the President calling FIFA's president,
I think that sends message. And then after the decision,
Trump wrote on true Social thank you to FIFA for
doing what was right and reversing a great injustice. And
he's right about that. It would have been a great injustice.
And if you're Belgium, go win. With Team USA at
(09:05):
full strength, they're supposed to be the better team going
into the World Cup. Belgium was supposed to be better
than Team USA. Now if you look at the line,
the money line and everything, it's pretty even. Because Team
USA has been playing really good Belgium, they haven't been
playing so great. But I just think this is one
of those situations where is it unusual what FIFA just did. Yes,
(09:27):
but I also think they got it right because it
wasn't an egregious incident that really should have led to
a rick card. And there have been a number of
different people who know soccer a whole lot better than
I do, who have said that that that wasn't really
a red card moment, that wasn't an incident that warranted
a red card. So I think they fix what they
(09:49):
got wrong in that match.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
On the national show that Read and I did on Friday,
we talked to soccer expert, somebody who follows the game religiously,
this is his thing, and he said that that call
was very questionable and pretty unfair to Team USA.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, And so you could look at it one of
two ways. You could look at it like Belgium, they're outraged,
but I probably would be too, all right if it
was the other way. There was the other way around,
I'd probably be outraged too. But you could also look
at it like, can you imagine if Team USA over
a call like that, was missing one of their best
(10:26):
players in the round of sixteen. I mean, how messed
up that would be the host country too. Yeah, So
you know, I don't know what Trump did on that call.
If I were him, I would take full credit for it,
and I think he will, and I think it'll go
down as one of his great accomplishments during his presidency.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Can make The Ryan Gormanchow Podcast Up We Set on iHeartRadio,
presented by Verah and Farah Accident Attorneys, Tampa,
The Ryan Gorman Show podcast presented by Vera and VERA
Accident Attorneys from Tampa.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, Natalie, Good morning, Well Inter Miami's Leonelle Messi's
World Cup dream stays alive after eight dramatic five goal
thriller of Hintina moving on to the round of sixteen.
After literally an edge of your seat drama unfolding on
the pitch, Messi ignited the crowd early, scoring a brilliant
(00:28):
trademark curwing free kick in the top left corner, putting
a Henthena on the board. Cape Verd fought back valiantly.
I mean, hats off to them. They really gave Argentina
a run for their money, matching l'abicellest a blow for
blow and equalizer for equalizer. But the definitive highlight goes
to Inner Miami's own midfielder, Roldego de Paul, who smashed
(00:51):
a spectacular twenty five yard volley in the eighty second minute,
securing that three to two victory. A Henttena's moving to
the knockouts while Miami Stadium is paring to host the
tournament quarterfinals this Saturday. And I'm sure you saw the game.
I don't know if you did, if you were in
New York and watching it was really probably, hands down
(01:11):
so far the most exciting game of the World Cup.
If not, it will probably take that that honor when
the tournament is all said and done.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I mean, there were some really great matches lately. For
someone like me who is not a big soccer fan,
took me. It took me a second to kind of
get into things here with this World Cup. Some of
the matches. It was the I think Germany Paraguay matchup.
I was watching that at a bar in New York City.
(01:40):
I mean it was and I think that makes a
difference too, when you're at an establishment where everybody's watching
the matches.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, that's it was when I went to the yeah, yeah,
it's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And then with the with the game, the Argentina k
Bird game, I didn't watch it, but I went when
I went to my friend's house on the fourth She's like,
oh my gosh, you got to go back and watch
the highlights because it was an incredible game. And you know,
Cape Verd, this tiny little country of like what four
hundred thousand people or something, they just really gave Argentina,
you know, one of the best teams and un for
their money. Yeah, how amazing it was.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It was.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Did you see after the match you had Messi He
ended up dismissing rumors of a romantic relationship with a
TV reporter from Argentina. Stupid. Yeah, yeah, I guess they've
got really good chemistry and people just soon just assume.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I thought you were going to mention how how Messi
actually went over to one of the guys from Cape
Verd and told him how phenomenal he was, how proud
he was of him and the team, and how that
really like kids dream comes.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah. So last night there was a great match between
Mexico and England.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Saw that and it's crazy red card was issued there.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah yeah, and you know Mexico and their fans, they
did everything they could to win that match. Fans actually
gathered outside of England's team hotel and they set off
fireworks and played loud music and they were beating drums
ahead of the match to try to throw England off
with their sleep.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, so that they couldn't sleep.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
The fireworks thing works on not allowing people to sleep though,
because I am very sleep deprived today because people in
my neighborhood were lighting them off all night.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, that's right, but it did not work in that
instance because England won that match. And there have just
been so many stories tied to the World Cup that
have been fascinating. And then of course you've got the
big controversy involving Team USA ahead of tonight's matchup.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, it's a studying unprecedented ruling from FIFA completely reshaping
tonight's roster just hours before kickoff. You've got striker falerin
Baligan who is officially clear to play tonight against Belgium.
It was a pretty rare historic move because FIFA suspended
his automatic one match band under Article twenty seven, putting
(04:01):
him in a one year probation instead. Now, the twenty
five year old was facing a mandatory sit out after
getting a controversial straight red card against Well it was
against Bosnia last week for the controversial tackle. The video
replay showed him inadvertently stepping on the upper ankle of
a Bosnia defender. But you know, I want to like
(04:23):
play angels. Angels. We have heard on high because President
Trump picked up the phone and called faithas President Gianni
and Fantino directly challenging the call. Well, at least that's
what we're told, you know, it could have been like hey, Gianni,
what's going high?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
European football body uf UEFA blasted the move. They claimed
that FIFA crossed the red lawn, literally threatening the integrity
of the tournament, which is now set for eight o'clock
tonight in Seattle. The betting markets are practically deadlocked on
both teams, but with ballerin in it does Team usay
(05:01):
a very slight edge. And on the topic of the
red card reversal, that's not really something that we have
not seen before because even the Siano Ronaldo from Team Portugal,
he was given a red card just before the World Cup,
which would have sidelined him for the start of the tournament.
FIFA did intervene with our President Trump, allowing him to
(05:22):
serve the suspension at a later date, and just spar Look,
this is.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The World Cup. You want the best players in the
world playing in these games. He plays absolutely egregious and
I did not think that was And you don't need
to be a soccer expert to understand intent is in
play here. It's it's just like if you end up
murdering somebody, right, I mean, if you didn't mean you
(05:49):
necessarily right, yeah, exactly thirty times yeah, in ten matters.
And if you're Belgium they're complaining about this, wouldn't you
want to play Team USA?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Don't you?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Full challe? They win?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
You won against the whole team with.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The player right right. And as for President Trump's role
in this, I don't know what happened on that call,
but I'm sure at some point the President's going to
take full credit for this. Absolutely yes, Coret, and he
deserves it. This was one of his greatest accomplishments as president,
making sure the Team USA is at full strength for
(06:30):
this match.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I do have to say, record breaking fourteen red cards
have been issued in this World Cup, never before. And
then this Saturday's game in Miami is going to be
minus one team player from England, Gerald Kwanza, who got
slapped a red card yesterday's game and no one said
anything about that. Trying to get this guy back on
the pitch on Saturdays. These refs got to chill out
(06:52):
with the red cards, all right. It said, don't make
it a ref show. This is about the World Cup
and these teams.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Somebody made an AI that has the ref holding up
the red card and then the player holding up the
trump card.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's great. Natalie Rodriguez with today's top Stories. Natalie, thanks
so much.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
But we've been talking about the controversy surrounding Team USA.
FIFA suspended Falarum Belligan's one game suspension, so he's eligible
to play in tonight's World Cup Round of sixteen match
against Belgium. He was initially ruled out following a red
card in the last match Belgium. They have been granted
(07:30):
the right to appeal the ruling. This is what George Carr,
listening to US in Tampa Bay Area, had to say.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Why would Belgium be upset that the United States will
be at what we would call full strength by having
their best player available for the game. Don't you want
to beat your opponent when they're at their strongest. They
sound a little like whimps, they do.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Look, this is the World Cup, all right. You want
the best players in the world to be playing in
these mans. You don't want to hold out one of
the best players for Team USA or any other team
over something that I don't think was clear cut.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
No, it definitely wasn't. There were multiple questions about it,
whether or not it was intentional, and then whether or
not they used the instant replay to make that call,
which they're not supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, So President Trump, he personally called the president of FIFA.
And there's some differing reporting on this. Markaputo from Axios,
who we've had on the show, who I think has
really good sources within the White House. He said it
was essentially a call to the FIFA president to better
understand what was going on with all of this, that
there wasn't an actual push by the President to get
(08:43):
this suspension overturn. Now, just the President calling FIFA's president,
I think that sends message. And then after the decision,
Trump wrote on true Social thank you to FIFA for
doing what was right and reversing a great injustice. And
he's right about that. It would have been a great injustice.
And if you're Belgium, go win. With Team USA at
(09:05):
full strength, they're supposed to be the better team going
into the World Cup. Belgium was supposed to be better
than Team USA. Now if you look at the line,
the money line and everything, it's pretty even. Because Team
USA has been playing really good Belgium, they haven't been
playing so great. But I just think this is one
of those situations where is it unusual what FIFA just did. Yes,
(09:27):
but I also think they got it right because it
wasn't an egregious incident that really should have led to
a rick card. And there have been a number of
different people who know soccer a whole lot better than
I do, who have said that that that wasn't really
a red card moment, that wasn't an incident that warranted
a red card. So I think they fix what they
(09:49):
got wrong in that match.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
On the national show that Read and I did on Friday,
we talked to soccer expert, somebody who follows the game religiously,
this is his thing, and he said that that call
was very questionable and pretty unfair to Team USA.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, And so you could look at it one of
two ways. You could look at it like Belgium, they're outraged,
but I probably would be too, all right if it
was the other way. There was the other way around,
I'd probably be outraged too. But you could also look
at it like, can you imagine if Team USA over
a call like that, was missing one of their best
(10:26):
players in the round of sixteen. I mean, how messed
up that would be the host country too. Yeah, So
you know, I don't know what Trump did on that call.
If I were him, I would take full credit for it,
and I think he will, and I think it'll go
down as one of his great accomplishments during his presidency.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Can make The Ryan Gormanchow Podcast Up We Set on iHeartRadio,
presented by Verah and Farah Accident Attorneys, Tampa,
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