Sheinbaum juggles World Cup questions at FIFA-focused presser: Monday’s mañanera recapped

In lieu of a regular property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum and different national officials gave a presumption connected Monday greeting astir the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which Mexico volition co-host with the United States and Canada.

The presentation, held outdoors astatine the Los Pinos Cultural Complex connected a acold Mexico City morning, had been scheduled for past Monday, but was postponed owed to the Nov. 1 execution of the politician of Uruapan, Michoacán.

⚽️ Jugadoras y jugadores de futbol en estilo libre de la FIFA México realizaron una exhibición durante la presentación de la Copa Mundial FIFA 2026, encabezado por la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum

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Sheinbaum noted that it volition beryllium the 3rd clip that Mexico hosts a FIFA men’s World Cup, known arsenic la Copa Mundial, oregon simply “la mundial,” successful Spanish. Mexico antecedently hosted the lawsuit successful 1970 and 1986, and volition co-host the 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cup successful 2031.

“This mundial is shared with the United States and Canada, and it represents a precise peculiar infinitesimal for our country,” Sheinbaum said.

She highlighted that the opening ceremonial of the World Cup volition beryllium held successful Mexico City for the 3rd clip up of the archetypal lucifer of the tourney astatine the Estadio Azteca connected June 11, 2026.

The president noted that a full of 13 matches volition beryllium played successful Mexico, including each of the Mexican team’s radical matches. In summation to “El Azteca” successful the capital, stadiums successful Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Monterrey, Nuevo León volition besides big matches successful 2026.

Sheinbaum said that 5.5 cardinal shot fans volition travel to Mexico for the World Cup.

“[It volition be] a precise peculiar clip with a precise important economical spillover,” said the president, who declared that “Mexico is ready” to big the event.

‘A caller accidental to amusement the satellite the greatness of Mexico’

Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez, 1 of the national officials intimately progressive successful the enactment of the World Cup successful Mexico, highlighted that the commencement of the quadrennial lawsuit is conscionable 213 days away.

“This is simply a caller accidental to amusement the satellite the greatness of Mexico, its pre-Columbian richness,” she said earlier noting that the Mesoamerican ballgame has been placed present “since ancestral times.”

When it comes to shot (or shot if you prefer), “we transportation it successful our roots,” Rodríguez said.

‘We stock the aforesaid goal: to signifier the champion World Cup ever’

The national government’s World Cup coordinator, Gabriela Cuevas Barron, highlighted that Mexico volition go the archetypal state to big la mundial connected 3 abstracted occasions.

Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez (center), FIFA’s enforcement manager successful Mexico Jurgen Mainka Ruiz (left) and Gabriela Cuevas Barron (back right) joined the president for the FIFA-focused mañanera connected Monday held astatine Los Pinos. (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro)

“Three countries — Mexico, the United States and Canada, [and] we stock the aforesaid goal: to signifier the champion World Cup ever,” she said.

“In Mexico, it’s possible. We person the passionateness and experience, our bosom and professionalism acceptable america apart,” Cuevas said.

She said that Mexican authorities from each 3 levels of authorities are drafting up a “comprehensive” information program for the World Cup.

“Our nonsubjective is to warrant that this lawsuit is carried retired successful a harmless situation for everyone,” Cuevas said.

FIFA’s Mexico main claims 2026 World Cup volition beryllium ‘most ambitious lawsuit successful the past of humanity’

Jurgen Mainka Ruiz, FIFA’s enforcement manager successful Mexico, thanked Sheinbaum connected behalf of FIFA president Giovanni Infantino for her “leadership and regular commitment” to making the 2026 World Cup “a genuinely shared success.”

“As the wide manager of FIFA’s Mexico office, but besides arsenic a Mexican, I americium precise excited to beryllium capable to study that we’re taking steadfast steps toward delivering a historical task that volition beryllium remembered for galore years,” helium said.

“This variation of the FIFA World Cup volition beryllium the astir ambitious lawsuit successful the past of humanity. We’re talking astir 104 matches successful 39 days, 48 nationalist teams,” said Mainka Ruiz.

Whether the 2026 mundial volition really beryllium “the astir ambitious event” successful quality past is possibly debatable, but it volition astatine slightest beryllium the archetypal World Cup to diagnostic 48 teams, 16 much than the fig that participated successful caller editions.

Mainka Ruiz said that 28 teams person already qualified. That fig includes the Mexican team, known arsenic “El Tri,” which qualified automatically arsenic 1 of the 3 hosts of adjacent year’s event.

Mainka Ruiz: FIFA is ‘very confident’ successful Mexico’s information plans 

Asked whether FIFA has immoderate concerns astir hosting World Cup matches successful Mexico owed to the insecurity that plagues the country, Mainka Ruiz archetypal noted that the shot federation’s Mexico bureau has been collaborating with Mexican authorities connected “the contented of security” for 3 years.

“We’re precise certain, precise assured that the protocols and each the plans that are being implemented for the World Cup volition supply the information model [needed] for each the fans, each the teams and each the referees successful 2026,” helium said.

Sheinbaum: Ticket prices are a substance for FIFA 

A newsman noted that the authorities is speaking a batch astir an “inclusive World Cup,” but asserted that the prices of tickets — successful the hundreds oregon adjacent thousands of US dollars — “are not astatine each inclusive.”

#EnLaMañanera | “La organización del Mundial es de la FIFA. La decisión del precio de los boletos es de la FIFA, nary es algo en lo que intervenga ningún gobierno”, explicó Claudia Sheinbaum, ante el cuestionamiento sobre el alto costo de boletos para el Mundial 2026 pic.twitter.com/MxFqZjcQ9h

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A idiosyncratic who earns the minimum wage, who lives day-to-day, who gets up astatine 4 successful the greeting to spell to work, has nary mode of paying the terms of a ticket, the newsman said.

In response, Sheinbaum emphasized that FIFA sets summons prices and the authorities of Mexico and different governments person nary powerfulness to “intervene.”

“What are we doing truthful that radical tin … [watch the matches]? … What we’re doing is moving with FIFA truthful that determination tin beryllium a batch of [public] spaces successful the 3 [host] cities and successful different cities truthful that radical tin ticker the matches [on ample screens],” said the president, who acknowledged that not each matches volition beryllium shown connected free-to-air television.

As portion of the government’s efforts to big a mundial that is arsenic inclusive arsenic possible, Sheinbaum said that her medication is besides readying assorted World Cup-related “activities” successful which mean citizens volition person the accidental to participate.

Sheinbaum reiterates that she volition springiness distant her World Cup ticket 

More than 2 months aft she met with Infantino successful Mexico City and announced she would springiness distant the complimentary summons she received for the opening lucifer of the 2026 World Cup, Sheinbaum reiterated her plan.

“I’m going to springiness my summons to a girl, to a young woman who … [wouldn’t] person the accidental to spell and spot the opening ceremonial [and match] and who is simply a shot lover,” she said.

‘When you measurement onto the field, deliberation of the large state you represent’

Asked what her connection was for the Javier Aguirre-managed Mexican squad up of adjacent year’s World Cup, Sheinbaum archetypal wished El Tri “a batch of luck” astatine the tournament.

“And secondly, erstwhile you measurement onto the tract deliberation of the large state you represent,” she said.

“Mexico is an bonzer state with exceptional people. Every clip they measurement onto the field, they should deliberation of that,” Sheinbaum said.

Mexico’s champion effect astatine a FIFA men’s World Cup is reaching the quarter-final stage, which it did portion hosting the lawsuit successful 1970 and 1986.

El Tri is presently ranked arsenic the world’s 14th champion team. Spain, victor of the 2010 World Cup, is ranked No. 1 followed by Argentina, champions successful 2022, and France, which prevailed astatine the 2018 mundial successful Russia.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])