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President Donald Trump was present at the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey to watch Chelsea win the FIFA club world cup against the Saint-Germain de Paris on Sunday afternoon.
Trump saw Chelsea win the 3-0 match, and a later fight once the final whistle blew. He also gave prices and medals to the players and referees participating once the dust has settled.
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President Donald Trump is represented at the end of the club’s final football match between Chelsea and PSG at the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
Between all this, Trump spoke to Emily Austin de Dazn and congratulated FIFA president Gianni Infantino, for assembling the Club World Cup in the United States a year before the World Cup in North America.
“It’s a great thing,” said Trump. “And, you know, Gianni is one of my friends. He has done such a good job with the League and with football, or they would call him football, but I suppose that we call him football. I am not sure that the change can be done very easily, but it’s great and it’s incredible.”
Trump joked by saying that he could sign an executive decree to officially call football, “football” in the United States
“I think we can do it, I think we can do it,” he said.
President Donald Trump and the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, present Cole Palmer de Chelsea with the Golden Ball trophy after Chelsea won the Club World Cup final at the Metlife Stadium, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque / Pool Photo via AP)
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He was also asked who he thought that the biggest football player of all time was.
Trump returned in the days of the New York cosmos to praise in Pelé.
“Many years ago, when I was young, they brought a player named Pelé to play and he played for a team called The Cosmos … This place was crowded. It was a previous version of this stadium here in the Meadowlands and it was Pelé,” said Trump. “I don’t want to go out with myself, but it was a long time ago. I was a youngster and I came to watch Pelé and he was fantastic, and so I would say that I will probably go older. It’s like saying Babe Ruth, but I would say Pelé was so great.”
Pelé is often considered the greatest football player of all time. The Brazilian scored 569 goals in 583 appearances for Santos in Brazil.
Pelé famous 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 Upstart North American Soccer League. He made 64 appearances for the cosmos until 1977. He scored 37 goals.
