President Donald Trump gave Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York mayor and Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, the role of executive director of the Task Force that exceeded the FIFA 2026 World Cup.
At the first task force meeting on Tuesday, Trump said the young Giuliani will “be great.”
“He has known him for a long time. He is a highly competitive golfer, what I mean, very good. And he is also a highly competitive person, and he loves what we are doing,” Trump said, according to Polrico.
Trump also revealed on Tuesday that the main advisor of Infantino, Carlos Cordeiro, a former Goldman Sachs employee, would be a main advisor in the task force.
The United States won the accommodation tasks for the 2026 tournament together with the first mandate of Mexico and Canada Duration of Trump in the White House. Eleven American cities will organize games, as well as three in Mexico and two in Canada.
“Together, we will make sure that the 2026 World Cup is the best managed football tournament that the world has seen,” Trump said, referring to the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino. “This is going to fly any other tournament you did. You will say:” What work did you do in the past, because this is much better, “Gianni. This will fly” everyone. “
FIFA has said that at least five million fans are protected to attend the tournament around the world. Like many future tourists, they have canceled their trips to the United States in the midst of stories of people arrested on the border, vice president JD Vance insisted on the meeting that the administration would continue to adhere to its strict immigration policies.
“I know we will have visitors, likely from a country close to 100. We want them to come, we want them to celebrate, we want them to see the game. [Homeland Security] Secretary [Kristi] Name, “Vance warned.
On Monday, Trump announced that the NFL 2027 Draft will take place in Washington, DC, at the National Mall. He has also celebrated the construction of a 65,000 -seat football stadium for Washington commanders, which would open in 2030 if the DC counter is approaching.
Duration Trump’s first mandate, Andrew Giuliani was a special assistant of the president and associate director of the Public Link Office. In that role, the visits of the winning sports teams won the White House.
In 2022, he ran for Governor of New York, losing the Republican primaries to former representative Lee Zeldin, now director of the Environmental Protection Agency.
His father was deeply involved in the pressure of Ukrainian officials who lasted Trump’s first mandate in the White House to open research on Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, with respect to international businesses. Trump threatened to hold the deliveries from American weapons to Ukraine if President Vlodyyyr Zelensky did not launch an without foundation for Hunter Biden’s activities, which resulted in Trump’s first accusation.
Rudy Giuliani was also a key spokesman for the foundation of Trump and Maga claim that the 2020 presidential elections that Trump lost was manipulated. Later, Giuliani was ordered to pay $ 148 million in defamation damages after he repeatedly accused a mother of her daughter of manipulation of votes in her works as Georgia electoral workers.
The United States lost an offer before Qatar in 2010 to organize the 2022 World Cup. In 2015, the United States Department of Justice accused a total of 30 FIFA officials of fraud, money and extortion soaps, among other crimes, including solidation bribes to choose private places in the World Cup. Almost all accused were declared guilty or declared themselves guilty of the charges.
The 2026 World Cup is scheduled for June 11 to July 19, and the final set will take place at the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey.
