President Donald Trump created a job drive Friday to arrange for the 2026 World Cup, which is able to convey the globe’s premier soccer match to North America at a time when Trump’s on-again-off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions throughout the continent. The duty drive, which Trump will chair, will coordinate the federal authorities’s safety and planning for the match, which is anticipated to attract thousands and thousands of vacationers to the US, Canada and Mexico. Officers from FIFA, the worldwide soccer governing physique, met with Trump within the Oval Workplace and unveiled the flowery trophy that the profitable nation will take house. “It’s an excellent honor for our nation to have it,” Trump stated of the World Cup. For 2026, the World Cup will develop to 48 groups taking part in 104 matches throughout three nations, the primary time the match can be cut up between international locations. Seventy-eight of 104 matches can be performed within the U.S., with 13 video games every in Mexico and Canada, and there as many as six matches a day. The ultimate can be performed July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. FIFA President Gianni Infantino stated the duty drive will be certain that every of the guests who will journey from all over the world “feels secure, feels pleased and feels that we’re doing one thing particular.” Trump stated the present tensions with Mexico and Canada will make the match “extra thrilling.” “Tensions are factor,” he added.