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US President Donald Trump hosted the Juventus men’s football team at the Oval Office in Washington D.C., just a day before the club began its FIFA Club World Cup 2025 campaign. A video from the meeting between Donald Trump and the Juventus team from Tuesday, June 17, has now gone viral wherein the President asked the players whether women can make their team, and it left the players completely speechless for a little while.
The question from Donald Trump to Juventus players, including US internationals Weston McKennie and Timothy Weah, read, “Could a woman make your team, fellas?,” to which they had no answer while having a nervous smile on their faces. Shortly after, when the 79-year-old put the question to the club general manager, Damien Comolli, he responded, “We have a very good women's team,” who are the current Serie A Femminile champions.
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Despite that, Donald Trump kept the chat going, and said, “But they should be playing with women. He’s being very diplomatic.” It is important to note that in February of this year, the US President had signed an executive order to ban the transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, and in the immediate aftermath, the human rights activists had called it a discriminatory move.
Juventus defeated Al-Ain 5-0 in their FIFA Club World Cup 2025 opening match
After getting done with the awkward meeting with Donald Trump, Juventus players went down to business the next day in their opening Group G clash of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. They managed to defeat Al-Ain 5-0 in a one-sided contest, with the likes of Randal Kolo Muani and Francisco Conceicao scoring twice, while Kenan Yildiz scored once.
In the second Group G clash of the tournament, Juventus will be taking on Wydad AC in Philadelphia on Sunday, June 22, just prior to the big fixture against Manchester City coming their way in Orlando.
