{"id":134324,"date":"2026-07-18T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/134324\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:28:08","slug":"us-should-host-another-world-cup-without-mexico-and-canada-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/134324\/","title":{"rendered":"US should host another World Cup without Mexico and Canada, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">Trump will attend his first football game at Sunday\u2019s final between Spain and Argentina<\/p>\n<p>Published Sat, Jul 18, 2026 \u00b7 02:42 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">AS THIS North American-hosted World Cup nears its conclusion, United States President Donald\u00a0Trump\u00a0expressed his desire for the US to host another World Cup in the near future at a reception in New York on Friday (Jul 17) ahead of Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">\u201cYou should choose the United States of America again,\u201d\u00a0Trump\u00a0said at the reception inside\u00a0Trump\u00a0Tower. \u201cThis time, we will leave Canada and Mexico out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The US hosted 78 of the 104 matches in this summer\u2019s World Cup, including all 12 matches from the quarterfinals on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The 2038 World Cup is the next tournament that hasn\u2019t yet had a host nation announced. While a 12-year turnaround would be quick historically for a country to host an additional World Cup, it\u2019s a corner that Fifa has somewhat backed itself into with where it has assigned the 2030 and 2034 tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">With the 100th anniversary 2030 World Cup set to be hosted between Africa (Morocco), Europe (Spain and Portugal) and South America (Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay) and the 2034 World Cup hosted in Saudi Arabia (Asia), North America and Oceania are the only continents eligible to host in 2038 under Fifa\u2019s current rules for hosting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Trump\u00a0also shared that Fifa president Gianni Infantino has approached him about the possibility of the US and China co-hosting a World Cup in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-6 border-b border-gray-250 pb-4 font-poppins text-4xs font-medium tracking-10 text-gray-515\">SEE ALSO<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"block h-full w-full\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/lifestyle\/singapore-playing-world-cup-should-be-more-just-pipe-dream?ref=article-see-also\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"relative z-10 h-full w-full object-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f62a5db3cf6bb8b1680b00806f11b7f6afe921e69832e2a835c7d384ea98b62b.webp\" alt=\"Norway\u2019s team is greeted by crowds in Oslo after a successful World Cup run. A country that doesn\u2019t have a serious sports culture will never have any realistic hope of playing at the World Cup.\" width=\"2736\" height=\"1824\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Trump, who will be in attendance at Sunday\u2019s final between Spain and Argentina at East Rutherford, N.J., inserted himself into the story of this World Cup when he reportedly contacted Infantino about the possibility of overturning US forward Folarin Balogun\u2019s red card from the team\u2019s round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">While FIFA did controversially suspend the one-match ban to make Balogun eligible, the Americans lost 4-1 to Belgium, failing once again to reach the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6 inline-block\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">\u201cYou made another great decision,\u201d\u00a0Trump\u00a0said to Infantino of the Balogun decision. \u201cYou\u2019ll never get credit for that.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump will attend his first football game at Sunday\u2019s final between Spain and Argentina Published Sat, Jul 18,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,162,1314,3543],"class_list":["post-134324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-fifa","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}