Shon Goldberg

UEFA Nations League · Defender · #3 · Israel · 30 yrs

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Shon Goldberg

Defender · #3

Legal name: Sean Goldberg
Age: 30
Nationality: Israel
Height: 179
Weight: 72
Preferred foot: —
Injured: No
Current club: —

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U.S. Soccer VP blasts FIFA's Gianni Infantino for 'tarnishing the entire sport' to win Trump's favor

sports.yahoo.com · 6 days ago

Nathán Goldberg Crenier believes soccer's integrity is a casualty of Infantino's alliance with Trump and called upon the sport's leaders to oppose the FIFA president.

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U.S. Soccer VP says FIFA president Gianni Infantino is 'tarnishing the entire sport' to win Donald Trump's favor

sports.yahoo.com · 6 days ago

Nathán Goldberg Crenier believes soccer's integrity is a casualty of Infantino's alliance with Trump and called upon the sport's leaders to oppose the FIFA president.

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Infantino’s Faustian bargain with Trump has stained football’s biggest stage

theguardian.com · last week

The Fifa president sought influence with the US leader. Instead, Fifa’s president has entangled football in politics and wounded the game’s credibilityEver since the United States won the rights to co-host the 2026 World Cup, Fifa president Gianni Infantino has worked to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump at all costs, supposedly to secure preferential treatment for Fifa from the American government. Predictably, he suffered the same fate as everyone who has made a Faustian bargain with the US president: he learned that cozying up to Trump always backfires, tarnishing the entire sport along the way.I love soccer because, at its best, it is inclusive, democratic and accessible to everyone. So do billions of other people; the sport’s universal cultural impact truly lends it the potential to be a force for good that “unites the world”, as Fifa loves to say. We saw this force in action at the start of the World Cup when, despite Trump’s hardline anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner policies, the prevailing sentiment showed that visiting teams and fans found most Americans really are warm and welcoming people.Nathán Goldberg Crenier serves as the elected vice-president of the US Soccer Federation. This editorial represents his personal opinions and does not necessarily reflect the positions or views of US Soccer. Continue reading...

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U.S. Soccer VP blasts FIFA's Gianni Infantino for 'tarnishing the entire sport' to win Trump's favor

U.S. Soccer VP says FIFA president Gianni Infantino is 'tarnishing the entire sport' to win Donald Trump's favor

Infantino’s Faustian bargain with Trump has stained football’s biggest stage

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U.S. Soccer VP blasts FIFA's Gianni Infantino for 'tarnishing the entire sport' to win Trump's favor

U.S. Soccer VP says FIFA president Gianni Infantino is 'tarnishing the entire sport' to win Donald Trump's favor

Infantino’s Faustian bargain with Trump has stained football’s biggest stage