The selection of the USA debuts this Friday, June 12, in the 2026 World Cup against the team of Paraguay. Therefore, as happened in the preview of the matches in Mexico City and Canada, the third organizing country, will also hold an opening ceremony before the meeting in Los Angeles.
The US once again hosts a World after the edition he organized in 199432 years ago. For this reason, the president of the United States, donald trumpassured that this represents a great responsibility for the country. However, the Republican president will not attend the inaugural ceremony to be held in California.
The general director of the White House task force for the World Cup, Andrew Giulianiconfirmed that the New York tycoon will not attend the opening ceremony due to the busy agenda of the president of the United States during the next few days. Despite this, he did manage to attend the finals of the NBA in New York.
“He will not be able to attend the opening match. As we have already said, the president has an agenda very tight. But I know it will be very involved throughout this 2026 World Cup,” commented Giuliani, who added that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubiowill attend the meeting in representation of Donald Trump’s government.
Possible presence later
American television network TUDN reported that the president of the United States surprised the team of that country with a call telephone hours before his participation in the 2026 World Cup and did not rule out a later appearance as the competition progresses, since he will be more involved in the final stretch of the tournament.
“But one thing, having known Donald Trump for more than three decades, what I can tell you is: expect the unexpected. Always expect an end suspense with the. “Throughout this tournament, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him get more and more involved in the World Cup,” added Giuliani, regarding the call from the president to his selection.
Therefore, Giuliani’s statements and the Republican president’s call to the United States team maintain the unknown about a possible presence of President Donald Trump at other times of the World Cup, although his presence has already been confirmed. absence in the debut of the United States against Paraguay in California.
Despite this, Giuliani indicated that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will be accompanied by the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffyand the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin. In this way, neither Donald Trump in the United States nor Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico will attend the opening ceremonies in their respective countries.
The US Way
The United States team is the unique of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation (Concacaf) that has arrived at semi-finals of a World Cup. However, since he achieved it in the edition of Uruguay 1930the Stars and Stripes team has not been able to get past the quarterfinals.
Now, the US leaves as favorite to stay in first place Group Dahead of Paraguay, Türkiye and Australia. However, from the round of 32 onwards, the path could change get complicatedsince it would face the third place in groups B, E or F, which includes teams such as GermanyEcuador, Japan and Netherlands.
Andrew Giuliani, the World Cup task force’s CEO, has confirmed President Donald Trump will not attend the United States men’s national team’s opening game of the tournament against Paraguay on Friday.
“He’s not going to end up attending the opening game,” Giuliani told UK radio… pic.twitter.com/Ny1TdZj7Bu
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