Re: the politics. Nobody except Trump and Infantino made this political. And it started with the peace prize. Even with that I think most people would have not reacted like this to this match. we all know FIFA is corrupt, we all know Trump is corrupt but as a general rule fans will turn a blind eye to that as long as it doesn’t affect the day to day playing of the sport egregiously. This was just too in your face and everyone involved seems to be lying about it.
The team themselves obviously don’t deserve this. Balogun has had much of the attention through something that doesn’t seem to be his own fault but I can’t imagine it’s great for the rest of the team that everyone thinks you are screwed without one player.
The only people who come out of this well are the Belgian players to seem to have been rage baited into turning up to the tournament, the Belgian football association that raised the appeal and UEFA who have been having fun trolling FIFA for a while now.