President Donald Trump seemed to collide with the winning team trophy at 2025 FIFA Club World Cup Sunday at the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
MSNBC He reported that Trump has a friendly relationship with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who invited him to present the trophy to the English club Chelsea FC after the team won 3-0 against Paris Saint-Germain.
Why did Trump remain so long during the trophy raising ceremony?
The original plan asked Trump to give the coveted award to the captain of the Reece James team and then leave the stage. Instead, he stayed with the team, creating an uncomfortable moment while the players hesitated to celebrate it. A few moments later, James raised his trophy with golden towards the sky. Trump’s presence on stage surprised James and several teammates.
“I was told that (Trump) would present the trophy and then leave the stage,” James said Athletics After the game. “I thought I would go on stage, but I wanted to be -and that probably emphasizes the great thing that is the tournament.”
Another player from Chelsea Top, Cole Palmer, also shared his thoughts with the departure of Trump who surpassed the ceremony.
“I knew it would be here, but I didn’t know he would go to the grandstand when we lifted the trophy, so he was a bit confused,” said Palmer.
Trump received mixed reactions during the game
On the first anniversary of the failed murder attempt of his life, Trump joined the first Lady Melania Trump and several high -profile guests in his suite at Metlife Stadium for the long -awaited event. The crowd encouraged him ahead of the game, but he reinforced him several times during the game, News NBC and The associated press reported.
Chelsea FC received a replica of the golden trophy
Trump He admitted that he kept the original FIFA Club World Cup trophy after the news that what James raised was a replica, with the real prize that was now sitting in the Oval office. In an interview with Dazn, he revealed that Infantino initially asked him to keep the trophy temporarily, but later told him that he could keep him indefinitely.
“They (FIFA) said,” Could you keep this trophy for a while? “We put it in the oval office and then said,” When you go to pick up the trophy “and (Fifa President Gianni Infantino), he said:” We will never pick it up, you can have it forever in the Oval office, “Trump said in the starting. The daily beast.
The original trophy was prepared in collaboration with Tiffany & Co., with a central disc surrounded by three rotating outer rings and finished in 24 km gold. The estimated cost is about $ 230,000 and, if not returned, can be stored in the national files.
It start He reported that the President presented the possibility of signing an executive order that football is officially recognized as “football” in the United States
