Italian football team members visited Juventus with them President Trump In the oval office on Wednesday afternoon.
Exactly why the assembly happened is still a big mystery.
Six team players (Weston Makini, Timothy WeiManuel Lukatily, Federico Gatti, Ton Copeners and Dosan Flisovic), their coach Igor Tudor stopped, a handful of the team’s executives and FIFA President Gianni Infantino hours before Juventus FIFA World Cup Game against the United Arab Emirates AIN on that night in Audi Field.
Trump has been presented with the Juventus shirt and one for the World Cup next year, which will be hosted by the United States with Canada and Mexico. But when Trump took questions from the media for about 15 minutes during the event, a very few football was discussed.
Instead, the players stood behind him with patience – bored from time to time, and their faces without expression – as Trump answered the questions often related to The possibilities of the United States participating in the Israel war against Iran.
Later that night, Talk to a different group of correspondents After his 5-0 victory over AIN, Weah described the White House’s experience as “a little strange” and he and other players did not give the option to drop the visit.
“We have to go to go and have no choice but to go,” said Wahh, a member of the national men’s national team in the United States. From George’s father He is the former Ballon D’Or Forbain D’Or Prize Prize winner and was President of Liberia from 2018-2024. So “So [I] It appeared.
FIFA refused to comment. The White House and Juventus did not respond to requests for suspension from the Times.
While Wha said he believed that his first visit to the White House was “a great experience,” he added, “I am not one of politics, so it was not exciting.”
“when [Trump] Talking about all politics with Iran and everything began, it is a kind of example, I just want to play football, man. “
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Juventus and Weston McKini, Tim Wahi, takes a personal photo outside the White House after they met and other team members with President Trump at the Oval Office on Wednesday.
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“I don’t think Trump is correct for this position as president,” McKini said at that time. “I think he is ignorant. I don’t support him a little. I don’t think he is a man standing beside his word. In my eyes, you can call him racist.”
However, during his preliminary comments, Trump photographed Weah and McKennie for a short period as “American players” when he mentioned that night.
“Good luck,” he said, shaking their hands in what was the ability to be an embarrassing moment. “I hope you are the best players in the field.”
This does not mean, however, there were no embarrassing moments. Because there was no more than that when Trump grew up, “Men play in women’s sports,” then they looked at his right shoulder and asked: “Can a woman make your team, or parents? Tell me. Do you think?”
When no players responded, Trump said, “You are cute”, and then turned to face the other direction and asked the same question.
“We have a very good women’s team,” General Manager Juventus, Damien Comouli, answered.
Trump asked, “But they should play with women, right?”
When he did not get any response, Trump smiled and returned to the correspondents.
“Look, they are very diplomats,” he said.
Trump made a few other attempts to involve the football band in the discussion. At one time, the president used the word “surreptitious” when discussing American military aircraft, then turned and hung, “O comrades you want to be hidden tonight. You can be hidden – you won’t lose, right?”
The players do not seem to respond.
As for the last question of the session, Trump’s border policy correspondent has positively compared to Trump’s policy Former President Biden He asked, “What is this success attributed?”
Trump looked behind him and mentioned, “Look, this is what I call a good question, Oats.”
Once again, the players did not seem to respond.
