The FIFA held this Thursday the draw for the new 2025 Club World Cup in which Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid will participatean event welcomed by the United States and its newly elected president, Donald Trump, who burst into the gala held in Miami with a welcome message recorded on video.
Trump, who could not attend the gala, appeared on the room’s screens after the initial speech by Infantino, the president of FIFA, with a brief message for all attendees:
“I will be watching what happens in the draw, Gianni (Infantino) is a winner, he is the president and I am the president, so I am honored that soccer is coming to my country, My son is a big football fan, although he is not very good.“said the man who will return to the White House very soon.
He paid special attention to highlighting the word ‘soccer’, a gesture somewhat contrary to what Infantino did throughout the gala when referring to the sport as ‘football’. It is the eternal dispute between English and Americans by a term that in North America refers to American football.
Beyond that detail, Trump seemed welcoming to the arrival of a major event that will serve as a test for the second major event that his country will host under his mandate, the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026.
In addition to his appearance on screen, his grandson Theodore James participated in the gala as an innocent hand, accompanied by Ivanka Trump, who assured when asked that his team favorite was the French PSG.