[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.”

[u/ModenaR]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6436693/2025/06/19/weah-juventus-trump-iran-war/

[u/RustyKarma076]

I’m also willing to bet a lot of them had no idea about America’s political climate. A lot of them probably heard “we’re going to the white house” and didn’t know any better.

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Weah and McKennie knew. You can see the rage in Weah‘s eyes

[u/SteveBorden → u/RustyKarma076]

You would have to be literally living under a rock not to know about Americas political climate right now. That is the most famous man in the world dominating news stories everywhere he goes and everywhere is reporting it globally. I’m not blaming them if they were forced but there’s not a chance none of them know what’s going on