At the final of the club World Cup
Not Messi or Ronaldo: Trump calls his favorite player
14.07.2025 – 6:06 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The US President was on site at the Club World Cup final on Sunday. In an interview, he joked about renaming football in the USA. And he named his favorite player.
The club World Cup in the USA ended on Sunday with a surprisingly clear 3-0 final victory of FC Chelsea against Paris St. Germain.
US President Donald Trump also did not miss the opportunity to be part of the East Rutherford Metlife Stadium. After the final whistle, the 79-year-old entered the field to carry out the award ceremony together with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, where he collected some fans.
Shortly afterwards he gave an interview with the transmission streaming service DAZN. Reporter Emily Austin proposed to him whether one should not issue a implementing regulations to rename sport in the United States of “Soccer” into “Football”. Just as the sport actually means all over the world. Trump replied with a grin: “I think we could do that.”
Trump used the question of how the national soccer teams of the United States could dominate on the world stage in the future for a swipe against his political opponents, which many users on the Internet then expressed their displeasure. Trump said: “We are very good on other stages, on the political stage, on the financial stage.”
He continued: “All heads of state and government said a year ago: ‘Your country was dead and now you have the hottest country in the world.’ We were very bad as a country, we had an incompetent administration.
Then, with a view to the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, he still struck a conciliatory tones: “It’s about unity, it’s about everyone coming together and a lot of love between the countries. I think that is probably the most international sport, so she can really bring the world together,” said Trump, who opened who is the best player in history for him: “Many years ago, when I was young, a player named was Pelé Get that played for a team named Cosmos. “
Trump continued: “And this place was full – it was an earlier version of this stadium (the Metlife stadium, d. Red.) And it was Pelé. But that was a long time ago, and I was a young man who saw Pelé, and he was fantastic. So I am probably old -fashioned and say that Pelé was so great.”