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Reuters
Jul 8, 2025, 03:50 PM ET
U .S. President Donald Trump volition be Sunday's Club World Cup last successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, helium said astatine a Cabinet gathering connected Tuesday, arsenic satellite soccer's ruling assemblage FIFA announced it had opened an bureau successful New York's Trump Tower.
The expanded tourney featuring galore of the world's champion nine teams has been wide seen arsenic a adust tally for the 2026 World Cup, which volition beryllium co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico with a grounds 48 nationalist teams taking part.
Sunday's Club World Cup last astatine MetLife Stadium volition beryllium a preview of adjacent year's title match, with the location of the NFL's New York Jets and Giants besides hosting the 2026 finale.
"I'll beryllium going to the game," Trump told reporters.
The quality came a time aft FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced the opening of a typical bureau astatine Trump Tower, wherever the Club World Cup trophy volition beryllium connected show until the final.
"We person received specified a large enactment from the authorities and from the President with the White House Task Force for the FIFA Club World Cup [now] and for the FIFA World Cup adjacent year," Infantino said.
Trump has not shied distant from sport's super-sized spotlight during his 2nd term, becoming the archetypal sitting president to be a Super Bowl successful February, and successful May announcing D.C. arsenic the big for the 2027 NFL Draft from the Oval Office.
His migration crackdown and question prohibition connected 12 countries person prompted concerns up of the 2026 World Cup, however, adjacent arsenic Infantino offered assurances that the satellite volition beryllium welcomed successful the U.S. for the quadrennial planetary showpiece event.
A memo obtained by Reuters past period showed that the Trump medication was considering importantly expanding its question restrictions by perchance banning citizens of 36 further countries from entering the U.S.
