{"id":2431610,"date":"2025-05-06T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-andrew-giuliani-to-lead-2026-world-cup-task-force\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:23:17","slug":"trump-andrew-giuliani-to-lead-2026-world-cup-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-andrew-giuliani-to-lead-2026-world-cup-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Andrew Giuliani to lead 2026 World Cup task force"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-andrew-giuliani-to-lead-2026-world-cup-task-force%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2431610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump has appointed Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-floyd-county-georgia-terminates-election-director-after-statewide-audit-discovers-uncounted-votes\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Floyd County, Georgia Terminates Election Director After Statewide Audit Discovers Uncounted Votes\">executive director<\/a> of the President\u2019s Task Force for the 2026 FIFA world Cup. This tournament, co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, will mark the first time the U.S. has hosted the event since 1994. In his announcement, trump praised Giuliani&#8217;s previous work during his administration, highlighting his role in facilitating the return of athletes to the U.S. during the pandemic. Trump also mentioned Carlos Cordeiro, a senior FIFA adviser and former president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">task force<\/a>. He expressed confidence that this team would ensure the tournament&#8217;s success, stating it would be &#8220;the biggest, safest, and most remarkable soccer tournament in history.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump taps Andrew Giuliani to lead 2026 World Cup task force<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2114965\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced Tuesday that Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, will serve as the executive director of the President&rsquo;s Task Force on the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"FIFA World Cup\">FIFA World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The United States will co-host the tournament alongside Canada and Mexico next year, marking the first time the U.S. has hosted the event since 1994 and the first time it has been co-hosted by multiple countries since 2002. The 2022 World Cup was played through November and December due to extreme summer heat, but it will return to its typical schedule in 2026.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3402523\/melania-trump-to-honor-barbara-bush-stamp\/\">Melania Trump to honor Barbara Bush with new stamp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3402802\/trump-fifa-task-force-meeting\/\">WATCH LIVE: Trump attends FIFA Task Force meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3402557\/trump-carney-canada-not-for-sale\/\">Carney politely tells Trump Canada&#8217;s &#8216;not for sale&#8217; &mdash; Trump retorts &#8216;never say never&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In a statement on Truth Social, posted just moments before an event in the White House&rsquo;s East Room with FIFA&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-of-the-heritage-foundation-announces-resignation\/\" title=\"President Of The Heritage Foundation Announces Resignation\">executive leadership team<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >president credited<\/a> the younger Giuliani&rsquo;s tenure during Trump&rsquo;s first term as the associate director of the White House&rsquo;s Office of Public Liaison as &ldquo;playing a key role in creating the system that enabled athletes from around the World to re-enter the United States during the Reopening of America in 2020.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks during a FIFA task force meeting on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump also announced that senior FIFA adviser Carlos Cordeiro will serve alongside Giuliani on the task force. Cordeiro was the president of the U.S. Soccer Federation when the joint-winning bid for 2026 was announced.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know Andrew and Carlos will work tirelessly to make the 2026 FIFA World Cup an unprecedented success,&rdquo; the president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement, Trump held a roundtable in the White House&rsquo;s East Room with FIFA&rsquo;s leadership team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3402557\/trump-carney-canada-not-for-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>CARNEY POLITELY TELLS TRUMP CANADA&rsquo;S &lsquo;NOT FOR SALE&rsquo; &mdash;&nbsp;TRUMP RETORTS &lsquo;NEVER SAY NEVER&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to be great,&rdquo; Trump reiterated of Giuliani at the event. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve known him for a long time. He&rsquo;s a highly competitive golfer &mdash; I mean really good &mdash; and he&rsquo;s also a highly competitive person, and he loves what we&rsquo;re doing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Together, this group will help plan the biggest, safest, and most extraordinary soccer tournament in history, and that&rsquo;s what it&rsquo;s going to be,&rdquo; the president continued. &ldquo;This is going to blow them all away. I don&rsquo;t want to insult my other friends from other countries, but we&rsquo;re going to blow them away.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2114965\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2114965\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump appoints Andrew Giuliani as head of 2026 World Cup task force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2431611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/trump-world-cup.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[54730,54729,3634],"class_list":["post-2431610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-andrew-giuliani","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/trump-world-cup.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431614,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431610\/revisions\/2431614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2431611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}