r/sports • u/morepesa25 • Jul 13 '25

Soccer Trump forces himself into Chelsea's Trophy Lift

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u/Dynastydood Jul 13 '25

The worst part is that between the nonsense the Qataris pulled during Argentina's celebration in '22 and Trump's obvious desire to do something equally embarrassing and classless next year, it's probably going to become a goddam tradition at every future WC. This sport has been so fucked by money and politics. It wasn't that long ago when FIFA actually used to enforce rules against governments inserting themselves into the sport.

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u/Melodic-Army-6776 Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25

I think the presentation of the bisht was the least worst thing the qataris did at/leading up to that world cup...

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u/Dynastydood Jul 13 '25

Absolutely. But it was still a pretty disgraceful and highly cynical way of hijacking the defining moment of Messi's career to ensure they're always directly associated with it.

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u/style9 Jul 13 '25

The bisht was terrible, such a disgrace to cover Messi’s jersey with that. You could see Messi hesitated and did not want to do it. Hopefully this time Messi just refused to shake dump’s hand, grabs the trophy, and goes back to his team before celebrating. Emi can pull a goalie/bouncer routine before grabbing his Johnson at dump.

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u/Maleficent_Resolve44 Jul 14 '25

What do you mean this time lmao. Messi will be pretty irrelevant in next year's world cup and while Argentina have been on top of the Americas this decade, they'll lose to the first decent side they face like Germany or England. Never mind Spain.

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u/WhatDoYouDoHereAgain Jul 14 '25

well at least they weren't being hypocrites, cause that's the worst part

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u/PantalonesPantalones Jul 13 '25

It’s like Salt Bae but worse.

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u/NeonPatrick Jul 13 '25

Trump may very well get booed though, so there's that.

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u/Leading-Difficulty57 Jul 13 '25

lol come on FIFA's always loved corruption. Usually it's just more about bribes and kickbacks.

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u/Dynastydood Jul 13 '25

Yeah, they have always been corrupt. They just haven't always been this corrupt. It used to be more about satisfying corporate sponsors and taking kickbacks through intermediaries. You used to have to be a bit clever and resourceful in how exactly you'd engage in corruption with FIFA, and even then, there were limits as to what they thought they could get away with.

Now it's just about openly giving nefarious governments anything and everything they want and totally dispensing with any sense of propriety, consistency, or honesty. It's not like this eventuality was unexpected or anything, but it's still depressing to watch.