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President Donald Trump attended the Metlife stadium in New Jersey to see Chelsea win the FIFA Club World Cup on Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday afternoon.
Trump saw Chelsea win the 3-0 game, and a later fight once the final whistle exploded. He also delivered prizes and medals to participating players and referees once the dust settled.
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President Donald Trump is shown at the end of the Final Soccer match of the Club World Cup between Chelsea and PSG at the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sunday, July 13, 2025. (Photo AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
Among all that, Trump spoke with Emily Austin de Dazn and praised the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, for assembling the Club World Cup in the United States a year before the World Cup takes place in North America.
“It’s a big thing,” Trump said. “And, you know, Gianni is a friend of mine. He has done a great job with the league and football, or they would call him football, but I guess we call him football. I am not sure that the change can be made very easily, but it is great to see and this is a bit annoying that we are seeing today, right? So far it is incredible, it is incredible.”
Trump joked that he could sign an executive order to officially call football, “football” in the United States
“I think we can do that, I think we can do that,” he said.
President Donald Trump and the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, present Cole Pale de Chelsea with the Golden Ball trophy after Chelsea won the club’s final of the Club World Cup at the Metlife Stadium, on Sunday, July 13, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo through AP)
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He was also asked about who thought he was the best soccer player of all time.
Trump returned to the days of the New York cosmos to praise Pelé.
“Many years ago, when I was young, they brought a player named Pelé to play and played for a team called Cosmos … This place was full. It was an earlier version of this stadium here in Los Prados and it was Pelé,” Trump said. “I don’t want to go out with myself, but that was a long time ago. He was a young boy and came to see Pelé and he was fantastic, so I would say that I will probably go to the old one. It’s like saying Babe Ruth, but I would say Peel was so great.”
Pelé is often considered the best soccer player of all time. The Brazilian scored 569 goals in 583 appearances for Santos in Brazil.
Pelé celebrates after winning the World Cup match between Brazil and Italy on June 21, 1970 in Mexico. (Alessandro Sabattini/Getty images)
He joined the Cosmos in 1975 for the advantage of the American Football League of America. He made 64 appearances for the cosmos until 1977. He scored 37 goals.
