{"id":15913,"date":"2025-08-21T00:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=630182"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:13:33","slug":"did-noni-maduekes-club-world-cup-medal-end-up-in-the-white-house-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/did-noni-maduekes-club-world-cup-medal-end-up-in-the-white-house-everything-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Noni Madueke\u2019s Club World Cup medal end up in the White House? Everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"494\">Chelsea fans are buzzing over a quirky theory that Noni Madueke\u2019s missing FIFA Club World Cup winner\u2019s medal might be sitting in the White House. The speculation started after U.S. President Donald Trump hosted a high-profile Ukraine peace meeting this week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"1035\">While the summit focused on serious diplomatic discussions, football fans noticed something unusual behind the Resolute Desk, the FIFA Club World Cup trophy on display.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNidp1LM2-l\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNidp1LM2-l\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNidp1LM2-l\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by The White House (@whitehouse)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1082\">Chelsea\u2019s Triumph in the Club World Cup<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1307\">Chelsea lifted the FIFA Club World Cup in the U.S. last month after beating PSG 3-0 in a memorable final. Trump later revealed that Chelsea had received a replica trophy, with the original trophy placed in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1309\" data-end=\"1483\">However, it wasn\u2019t just the trophy that caught fans\u2019 attention. Many believe a winner\u2019s medal was visible next to it \u2014 sparking rumours that it might belong to Noni Madueke.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1515\">The Madueke Medal Theory<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1516\" data-end=\"1728\">During the trophy presentation, FIFA President Gianni Infantino handed Trump a medal after the Chelsea squad had been recognised. Footage from the event shows Trump pocketing the medal before leaving the stage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"1964\">At the time, supporters speculated the medal may have belonged to Madueke, who was part of Chelsea\u2019s squad but flew home mid-tournament to finalize his \u00a352 million move to Arsenal. As a result, he missed the medal ceremony entirely.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1966\" data-end=\"2119\">Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella even fueled the rumor, joking: \u201cHe [Trump] put it in his pocket. He has it there in the White House, very well placed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"2397\" data-end=\"2430\">The Truth Behind the Rumour<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2431\" data-end=\"2618\">With images circulating of what appears to be a medal sitting beside the Club World Cup trophy in the Oval Office, supporters have connected the dots and concluded it must be Madueke\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2620\" data-end=\"2797\">However, Daily Mail Sport recently reported that the winger was due to receive his official Club World Cup winner\u2019s medal by mail, casting doubt on the fan-driven theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea fans are buzzing over a quirky theory that Noni Madueke\u2019s missing FIFA Club World Cup winner\u2019s medal might be\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":36939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1342,3936],"class_list":["post-15913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-club-world-cup","tag-noni-madueke"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}