Eu­ro­pean soc­cer body UE­FA crit­i­cized FI­FA for an “in­com­pre­hen­si­ble and un­jus­ti­fi­able de­ci­sion” to let Unit­ed States for­ward Fo­lar­in Ba­lo­gun play at the World Cup against Bel­gium on Mon­day de­spite a red card in his pre­vi­ous game.

UE­FA said in a state­ment FI­FA “crossed a red line” with its de­ci­sion not to en­force Ba­lo­gun’s manda­to­ry one-game ban, af­ter the world soc­cer body came un­der pres­sure from U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

FI­FA’s rul­ing Sun­day — to de­fer Ba­lo­gun’s ban for one year of pro­ba­tion — shock­ing­ly de­vi­at­ed from soc­cer’s tra­di­tion­al rule of law and drew sting­ing crit­i­cism glob­al­ly in­clud­ing from for­mer World Cup stars and coach­es at this tour­na­ment.