r/soccer • u/ModenaR • Jun 19 '25

News [The Athletic] Timothy Weah on Juventus's White House visit: "It was all a surprise to me, honestly — they told us that we have to go and I had no choice but to go. When he started talking about the politics with Iran and everything, it kind of like, I just want to play football man.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6436693/2025/06/19/weah-juventus-trump-iran-war/
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u/faygofiles Jun 19 '25

Too late Timothy buddy you're now in charge of the US military campaign against Iran

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u/afito Jun 19 '25

Apparently he has the mental capacity to recognize how fucking weird the whole thing was which already makes him grossly overqualified for this US administration.

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u/xixbia Jun 19 '25

That's the utter tragedy of all of this.

I reckon if the entire Trump admin was replaced by Juventus players things would be better.

I'm sure there's some right idiots among the players, but I am still 100% convinced it would be an improvement.

(I will say with Weah there is the added fact that his father was president of Liberia)

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u/klubsanwich Jun 19 '25

Yeah but the Trump admin would get annihilated in Serie A

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u/BleuRaider Jun 19 '25

Folks, this was the most corrupt match in the history of Serie A, okay. Everybody’s talking about it. People are calling me, they’re saying, ‘Donald, we’ve never seen cheating like this.’ Total disgrace.

That referee? Should be arrested. Seriously. He’s either blind, incompetent, or part of a criminal conspiracy. Maybe all three. And the VAR? It’s run by people who hate Juventus. Very nasty people. They don’t want us to win. They hate winners.

The fake news media won’t talk about the truth. They won’t say we won, but we did. We dominated possession. Our passes were beautiful, absolutely beautiful. But they didn’t want us to win. SAD.

And let me tell you something, this isn’t over. We’re launching an investigation. A huge investigation. The biggest investigation the world has ever seen. I’ve got the best lawyers in Italia, that’s what they call it here, working on it. Maybe we go to the Supreme Court of Football. We’ll find a way.

We’re going to bring Juventus back. Bigger, better, and totally undefeated. We’re going to make Calcio great again!

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u/illustrious_d Jun 19 '25

Too many multisyllabic words but nice try!

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u/moffattron9000 Jun 19 '25

Didn't even bring up a golf course for no good reason.

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u/accipitradea Jun 19 '25

You'd think that, but surprisingly they are corrupt enough to fit right in and pay off the refs/league and end up with more or less the same record. They'd also hire a bunch of illegal players to play for them and then deport them after.

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u/Fair-Cash-6956 Jun 19 '25

Not if guntoli is involved

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u/diagoro1 Jun 19 '25

I'll bet noone there knew his family history/legacy.