Draw for 2026 FIFA Men World Cup Washington will be held on 5 December at DC’s Kennedy Center, US President Donald Trump announced on Friday.
Trump said, “This is the biggest event in the game, I think,” Trump said, who announced at an oval office event, where he joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Vice President JD Vance.
The 2026 incident will be hosted in the United States, Canada and Mexico from 11 June to 19 July and will be the first World Cup organized by three countries and also that 48 teams will also expand.
Sixteen places have already been selected to host sports, 11 in the US, three in Mexico and two in Canada.
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Draws, which infantino said that Noon would be in ET, will see 48 qualified teams divided into 12 groups of four teams. The top two teams from each group Plus eight best third place teams will proceed on the knockout stage.
Infantino said that 48 teams would play “104 matches” in a month and compared it to “104 Super Bowls”. Trump said on the subject, saying, “It is like being a many super bowl in a short time, because each of these games is essentially, a super bowl. Some of them are larger than super bowls, in fact.”
He said that the Kennedy Center “will give an unprecedented kickoff and we will join it.” Asked if he was actually pulling the name of the team, Trump did not directly respond, but postponed Infantino, saying that FIFA was “boss”.
Infantino said, “This is a very interesting offer,” and he indicated that he and Trump would discuss the matter further.
The choice of the site is interesting because Trump captured the Kennedy Center, established himself as a chair and replaced the trusted board with loyalists. He has also indicated that he wants to change the name of Trump/Kennedy Center to see the site.
The President also used Friday’s FIFA announcement to deploy the National Guard and claim to make the police force of Washington federal.
“So now, when we have this beautiful event in December, it is going to be very safe,” said Trump. He said that the FIFA chief “can take his beautiful wife to the road. You can take her for dinner, if you can get reservation.”
When asked about fans abroad to get American visas to see his teams in the World Cup, Trump earlier said that the process would be a smooth, but then said, “Some countries are going to be very, very easy, and other countries are going to be a little more difficult.”
Along with the three host countries, 10 teams have already secured their place in 2026 tournaments: Japan, New Zealand, Iran, Argentina, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Jordan, Australia, Brazil And Ecuador,
FIFA also confirmed on Friday that a new playoff tournament, which would look at six out of five countries for the last two places in the World Cup, hosted in North America in March next year.
After the draw announcement, Infantino presented Trump with a ticket for the next year’s World Cup final, which was the first ticket available for the upcoming tournament.
Applications for tickets for 2026 World Cup Open September 10. FIFA said that due to the high demand, the tickets will be released at the stages.
In an unusual step, Infantino also brought the World Cup Trophy with him to the oval office.
This is almost a superstition as the World Cup: Players of national teams around the world believe that their team actually wins the tournament on the field before touching the trophy, can increase the bad luck.
Even Infantino stated that the trophy is “only for the winners,” but then they added to Trump, “and, since you are a winner, you can also do it too.”
The President did so, “This is very heavy.”
He later called the trophy a “beautiful piece of gold” and jokingly joked for it to keep it and display it at the Oval Office.
“It fits very well on the wall there,” said Trump.
Information of Associated Press was used in this report.
