‘Great feeling’: Palmer hails Maresca after Chelsea glory but Trump booed at final | Club World Cup 2025

Cole Palmer said that in Zo Maresca built something special after Chelsea had produced an amazing performance to beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 in the first final of the Extended FIFA Club World Cup.

Palmer was amazingly in the New Jersey Metlife Stadium, scoring two brilliant goals and creating João Pedro to do 3-0 in half time. Chelsea was outsiders entering their confrontation with the European champions, but they were installed brilliantly by Maresca, whose young team will take place in next season with an incredible belief after being crowned world champion.

“He builds something special, something important,” said Palmer about Chelsea head coach. “Everyone has talked about us a lot all season, but I have the impression that we are going in the right direction.”

Chelsea spent more than 1 billion sterling pounds for signatures since Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital bought the club three years ago. It was a slow process, but there are growing signs that their recruitment focused on young people work. In the first season of Maresca in charge, Chelsea qualified for the Champions League, won the league of the conference and dominated PSG in a major final.

“It’s a great feeling,” said Palmer. “Even better because everyone doubted us before the match, we knew it.

Palmer presents alongside Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior on Billboards in New York. “I saw the display panels in the square of time and outside Madison Square Garden,” he said. “It is a pleasant feeling of being alongside this type of players.”

Maresca was delighted with Palmer. “These are the games where we expect Cole to appear,” he said. “Great matches and great moments and once again, he showed how good he was.”

Chelsea, who made around 90 million pounds sterling of their time in the United States, will have three weeks off before returning to training at the head of the new season. They open their premier league campaign by welcoming Crystal Palace on August 17. “Of course, I am very excited [about the future]”Said Maresca.” But I’m more excited than we have three weeks off. “

Maresca praised her young side for having made the plan of perfection. “I have no words for the players,” said the Italian. “They all deserve this and it’s a good time. We won the match in the first 10 minutes. We settled the tempo and we were very good to press them. The conditions made it difficult to continue, but the boys did well. ”

There were praise for Palmer, who shone in a right role, but Maresca focused on the whole team. “Today, we found a position for him where there was more space to attack,” he said. “Obviously, Cole played very well, but the effort of all the players was fantastic.”

Maresca did not minimize Chelsea’s achievements by becoming world champions. “I think it will become as important as the Champions League and we appreciate it as much as the victory of the Champions League,” he said.

President Trump was mocked by the crowd to more than one opportunity when he came to the field for the trophy ceremony. Trump, who appeared next to Boehly and the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, ignored the huae and stayed at the front and the center with the Chelsea players while they lifted the trophy.

“I knew he was going to be here, but I didn’t know he was going to be on the stand when we got up the trophy,” said Palmer. “I was a little confused.”

There was a major security operation outside the ground before the match. The secrets of the secret services were present in the surroundings due to the participation in Trump and the bag controls were carried out by managers of the Transport Security Administration.

PSG was amazed by Chelsea and lost their composure towards the end. João Neves was sent for pulling the hair of Marc Cucurella and Luis Enrique, the manager of Ligue 1, could face disciplinary measures after seeing João Pedro in the face.

Luis Enrique defended himself by saying that he was trying to separate the players after a fight broke out full time. “I have no problem expressing my feeling at the end of the game in a high level of pressure,” he said. “It’s very stressful for all of us. It will be impossible to avoid. Everyone was involved. It was not what was best and the final result of the match pressure.

“I saw Maresca. I saw that he had pushed the others and we had to separate all the players and I do not know where this pressure comes from. But this is a situation that we must all avoid. My intention is that I wanted to separate the footballers so that the situation is not worse. ”

Maresca said: “After the final whistle, I approached Luis to talk to him and I saw that something was going on, but I don’t really know what happened.”