FIFA President Gianni Infantino has spent months insisting that he had nothing to do with the decision to lift U.S. star Folarin Balogun’s red card suspension at this summer’s World Cup, even after President Donald Trump admitted to calling him about it. But a new report suggests that Infantino’s role was much bigger than he let on.

Infantino reportedly agreed to scrap Balogun’s suspension during a July 1 phone call with Trump, breaking FIFA’s own disciplinary code in the process.

Balogun was sent off during the United States’ match against Bosnia and Herzegovina, which should have meant an automatic one-game suspension for the Round of 16 clash with Belgium. Instead, FIFA announced just one day before the match that it was suspending his punishment, clearing him to play.

The decision quickly drew outrage across the sports world, especially after Trump confirmed that he had called Infantino and asked for a review. The whole saga even led some Americans to start rooting for Belgium.

At the time, both men tried to downplay the role that the phone call played in the final decision.

“During our conversation, I explained that there was an ongoing legal process involving FIFA’s independent judicial bodies and that the case would be decided in due course by the competent bodies. That is how FIFA’s system works, and it is a principle that I will always uphold,” Infantino wrote in a statement.

“All I did, I asked for a review, cause I didn’t think it was a foul,” Trump said, via Yahoo. “I didn’t tell them what to do, I can’t tell them what to do. … I think it was a committee that made the decision, and they made the right decision.”

However, The Times’ Martyn Ziegler reported that it wasn’t actually a committee that made the call.

“There are 18 members of FIFA’s disciplinary committee but the unprecedented decision to lift Balogun’s automatic ban was taken by just one person – the chairman Mohammad Al Kamali of UAE. No one else was consulted,” Ziegler wrote.

UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, called the decision “incomprehensible” and said that it “crossed a red line.”

In the end, it didn’t matter much on the field. Belgium cruised to a 4-1 win with Balogun playing, eliminating the United States, and U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino later admitted that the episode changed “the entire energy” around his team.

Now, four sources briefed on the matter have told James Franey of the New York Post that the phone call went very differently than Infantino has claimed.

“He told President Trump that he would take care of it. One call and it was done,” one source told the Post.

Despite this report, however, FIFA stood by its stance on what happened.

“Our position has not changed regardless of what unnamed sources claim,” FIFA said in a statement to the New York Post.

The spokesman did not address what Infantino actually told Trump during the call.

One soccer insider told the Post that Trump making the request wasn’t the problem so much as Infantino going along with it.

“All presidents and prime ministers hosting a World Cup would want to ask for a favor to be done in this situation,” the insider said. “But the corruption is purely Infantino’s because he had to say: ‘We can’t change the rules, Mr President.'”