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President Donald Trump was present at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey to watch Chelsea win the FIFA Club World Cup over Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday afternoon.
Trump saw Chelsea win the match 3-0, and a subsequent scrub when the last flute was blowing. He also distributed awards and medals to participating players and referees as the dust sat down.
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President Donald Trump is depicted at the end of the Club World Cup Final Soccer Match between Chelsea and PSG at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Between all this, Trump spoke with Dazn’s Emily Austin and praised FIFA President Gianni Infantino for gathering the world championship in the club in the US a year before the World Cup takes place in North America.
“That’s a big thing,” Trump said. “And you know Gianni is a friend of mine. He has done such a good job with the league and with football, or they will call it football, but I assume we call it football. I’m not sure changes can be made very easily, but it’s nice to see, and it’s a bit of a disturbance that we see today, isn’t it?
Trump joked that he might be able to sign an executive order of officially calling football, “football” in the US
“I think we can do what I think we can do it,” he said.
President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino present Chelsea’s Cole Palmer with Golden Ball Trophy after Chelsea won the Club World Cup final at Metlife Stadium, Sunday 13 July 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Poolfoto via AP)
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He was also asked who he thought the biggest football player of all time was.
Trump came back to the days of New York Cosmos for praising Pelé.
“Many years ago, when I was young, they brought a player named Pelé to play, and he played for a team called Cosmos … This place was packed. It was an earlier version of this stadium right here in Meadowlands, and it was Pelé,” Trump said. “I don’t want to date myself, but it was a long time ago. I was a young guy and I came to see Pelé and he was amazing, and so I would say I would probably be old -fashioned. It’s like saying babe Ruth but I would say Pelé was so big.”
Pelé is often considered the greatest football player of all time. Brazilian scored 569 goals in 583 appearances for Santos in Brazil.
Pele celebrates after winning the World Cup between Brazil and Italy on June 21, 1970 in Mexico. (Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)
He joined Cosmos in 1975 for the Upstart North American Soccer League. He played 64 appearances for the cosmos until 1977. He scored 37 goals.
