US President Donald Trump Created a working group on Friday to prepare for the 2026 World CupThis will bring the world’s first football tournament to North America at a time when its prices outside everyone increased tensions across the continent.
“I think it will make him more exciting,” said Trump by playing the World Cup in the middle of net rhetoric between the leaders of the host nations. “Tension is a good thing.”
The working group, which Trump will chair, will coordinate the security and planning of the federal government for the tournament, which is expected to attract millions of tourists in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
“It is a great honor for our country to have it,” said Trump about the World Cup after meeting FIFA officials, the international football director. He said he would like to attend several games.
Preparations accelerate through the continent alongside tensions between the United States and its neighbors while Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose prices before retreating, frightening the markets and leading to fears of a trade war and an economic slowdown.
He also spoke pejoratively by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and reflects in Canada becoming an American state, which stimulated national pride north of the border.
For 2026, the World Cup will extend to 48 teams playing 104 games in three nations, the first time the tournament will be divided between countries. Seventy-eight of the 104 games will be played in the United States, with 13 games each in Mexico and Canada, and up to six games a day. The final will take place on July 19 at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey.
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino said the working group will guarantee that each visitors who will travel around the world “feels safe, feels happy and feels that we do something special”.
“So we are here to create and make the best show on the planet of all time,” said Infantino. He gave Trump a personalized balloon and unveiled an elaborate trophy which will go to the winner of the FIFA 2025 club World Cup, which will face football clubs against each summer before the national team match next year.
Trump then brought Infantino to show the trophy at the start of a white house cryptocurrency summit. The United States, where football has gained popularity but remains a niche sport, represents a major growth area for football, he said.
Infantino compared the production of the World Cup to the detention of three Super Bowls a day for a month, a vertiginous security and logistics challenge for host governments.
The Trump Administration will face a second test on the world sports scene in 2028, when the summer Olympic Games will be held in California, the first time that the games have been in the United States since Salt Lake City has been organized in 2002.
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