Well, if he REALLY wanted to see his son play, he'd just come up through Mexico and enter the US that way. No visa required, and the immigration folks wouldn't think twice about it.
Why can’t he get a Visa?
If I were President, I'd tell the appropriate bureaucrat, "Give him a visa or be checking passports in Nome, Alaska."
“His father is only able to see Michael and his 14-year-old sister, Amanda, when they travel abroad because U.S. immigration authorities barred him from entering the country after he pleaded guilty over his role in the Equatorial Guinea affair.”
Give us tens of million of your illiterate, your gangs, your drug traffickers, but not the son of one of America’s stauchest allies.