{"id":479750,"date":"2025-08-22T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-announces-that-the-2026-world-cup-draw-will-be-in-washington-on-december-5th\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:32:33","slug":"trump-announces-that-the-2026-world-cup-draw-will-be-in-washington-on-december-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/trump-announces-that-the-2026-world-cup-draw-will-be-in-washington-on-december-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces that the 2026 World Cup draw will be in Washington on December 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/h1>\n\n\nWashington (EFE).-<\/strong> U.S. President Donald Trump announced this Friday that the draw for the group stage of the 2026 World Cup will be held on December 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.<\/strong>\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>;U.S. to tighten visa review for fans attending the 2026 World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe announcement was made in the Oval Office of the White House, accompanied by the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino<\/strong>, as well as members of his Government, including Vice President JD Vance<\/strong> and Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem<\/strong>.\n\nThe tournament, which will be held in 16 cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico between June 11 and July 19, 2026<\/strong>, will feature 48 participating teams<\/strong>, expanding the format of previous editions by 16 teams.\n\n\n

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“It is a great honor to bring this world event and these incredible athletes to the cultural center of our nation’s capital,” Trump expressed, highlighting the magnitude of the event and the symbolic value of celebrating it in an iconic space like the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Trump’s Visit to the Kennedy Center<\/h3>\n\n\nPrior to the announcement, Trump toured the venue to oversee the ongoing refurbishment work. The president assured that the World Cup event will represent “the largest and most complex set of events in the history of sport” and compared it to organizing “several Super Bowls in a short time.”\n\n\n

Infantino hands the World Cup to Trump<\/h3>\n\n\nDuring the event, Infantino presented the World Cup trophy<\/strong> to the American president, pointing out that \u201conly the winners\u201d can touch it, mentioning Trump himself and Lionel Messi<\/strong>, the last champion with Argentina in Qatar 2022.\n\nTrump, laughing, asked if he could keep the trophy and suggested he would keep it in the Oval Office until the start of the championship, as happened this summer with the Club World Cup played in the United States.\n\nThe 2026 World Cup will mark the first edition with three host countries and the return of the tournament to North America after the one held in the United States in 1994.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington (EFE).- U.S. President Donald Trump announced this Friday that the draw for the group stage of the 2026 World Cup will be held on December 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. You may be interested in;U.S. to tighten visa review for fans attending the 2026 World Cup The announcement was made in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,41884,40853,40230],"class_list":["post-479750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-football","tag-thetruthnewspaper","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20NU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Mundial-FIFA-2026-1-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Mundial-FIFA-2026-1-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}