Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, told broadcasters that Donald Trump will jointly present the World Cup trophy with him at MetLife Stadium after the final 1. The arrangement rests on Infantino's own on-record remarks; no first-party FIFA release or White House statement setting it out has been published.
The presentation follows a closing ceremony that begins ninety minutes before kickoff , with individual awards handed out pitchside once the match has finished and the trophy last 2. Protocol at recent finals has placed the FIFA president and the host nation's head of state together on the podium, though the trophy itself has customarily passed through the FIFA president's hands alone.
Two details make the staging worth noting. The United States is one of three host nations for this tournament, alongside Canada and Mexico, neither of whose leaders has been named in the arrangement. And Trump's presence is the likeliest reason the fixture carries the federal security designation it does, which puts the ceremonial and the operational sides of the evening on the same cause.
