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LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump has stayed away from the World Cup after making himself the main character of the months leading up to it. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum prominently gave away her tickets to Mexico’s matches in what was seen as a populist rebuke to FIFA.
But one North American leader is reveling in the fact that his country is hosting the world’s top sporting event, and that its national team is doing well.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attended two of Canada’s group-stage matches, a visible
and gave a locker-room talk to the team after its defeat of Qatar that spread widely on social media. Carney has been such an omnipresent component of his team’s group-stage run that its one defeat, against Switzerland, has been blamed on the “Carney Curse” because the prime minister briefly stepped away from his seat when a crucial goal was scored.
Carney has not said whether he is traveling to Los Angeles for today’s knockout fixture against South Africa, but he did use the match-up as an occasion to call President Cyril Ramaphosa, where the two men discussed “growing cooperation in agriculture and agrifood,” according to a readout provided by the prime minister’s office.
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World Cup planners have long expected President Donald Trump will come to one or more matches. Now we know, thanks to FIFA head Gianni Infantino, that Trump will be at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to hand out the gold trophy after the final match concludes.
The July 19 event will be one more test of the region’s security and transportation apparatus, one that is in the middle of a long summer, including Trump’s early trip to New York earlier that month for a parade of warships.
From a logistical perspective, said Alex Lasry of the bistate New York/New Jersey host committee, the final is “its own animal,” with its own set of transportation and security worries.
At least one part of the animal will be familiar to local organizers: Trump’s presence. The president regularly returns to his native New York City and his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey. He was at MetLife last year to hand out the Club World Cup trophy alongside Infantino.
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