{"id":9460,"date":"2025-07-14T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/9460\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:17:04","slug":"trumps-shared-fifa-club-world-cup-celebration-confused-chelseas-cole-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/9460\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s shared FIFA Club World Cup celebration ‘confused’ Chelsea\u2019s Cole Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump\u2019s presence during Chelsea\u2019s FIFA Club World Cup victory celebrations<\/a> Sunday at MetLife Stadium left star midfielder Cole Palmer \u201ca bit confused.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the club commemorated its 3-0 victory against Paris Saint-Germain, Trump stayed on stage during the trophy celebrations, typically reserved for team personnel, which baffled the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew he was going to be here, but I didn\u2019t know he was going to be on the stand when we lifted the trophy, so I was a bit confused,\u201d Palmer said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. president stayed on stage with the victors after their 3-0 triumph against Paris Saint-Germain. FIFA via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer was \u201ca bit confused\u201d over President Donald Trump\u2019s presence during Chelsea\u2019s trophy lift at the FIFA Club World Cup final on July 13, 2025. FIFA via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In footage of the festive scene, Palmer is seen standing beside his Chelsea teammates and Trump, 79, with lip-readers suggesting Palmer was asking<\/a> why the U.S. president was still there.<\/p>\n

Trump, who took in the Club World Cup final<\/a> in a suite with wife Melania and FIFA president Gianni Infantino, presented Palmer with the Golden Ball, which is given to the top player of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Palmer scored three goals throughout the competition, including two in Sunday\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n

Cole Palmer in action for Chelsea at the FIFA Club World Cup final on July 13, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Cole Palmer (10) received the Golden Ball prize from FIFA president Gianni Infantino and President Donald Trump. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cTo score the goals was a great feeling,\u201d Palmer said. \u201cBut I think the way the team showed fire, and obviously the gaffer\u2019s game plan was spot-on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Entering Sunday, Chelsea hadn\u2019t played in a competitive match against Paris Saint-Germain since 2016.<\/p>\n

Cole Palmer lifts the FIFA Club World Cup trophy while celebrating with teammates. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The club had plenty of support from the 81,118-person crowd at MetLife Stadium, many of whom backed Chelsea.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe showed we were here to give it our all,\u201d Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca said. \u201cYou can give a detailed plan to your players, but they need to execute it.\u201d<\/p>\n

MetLife Stadium is one of the venues across North America playing host to the World Cup next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s presence during Chelsea\u2019s FIFA Club World Cup victory celebrations Sunday at MetLife Stadium left star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1216,12,2098,1088,403,99],"class_list":["post-9460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-donald-trump","tag-fifa-club-world-cup","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}