"President Donald Trump on Friday weighed in on the longstanding name debate involving soccer and football and he sided with the international community. Moments after Trump received FIFA's inaugural FIFA Peace Prize from federation President Gianni Infantino, he was joined onstage by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. There, the three leaders conducted the World Cup draw to determine the groups in which the participating countries would be placed."
"We seem to never call it [football] because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called [football]? I mean, this is football. There's no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff. It really doesn't make sense when you think about it. This is really football!"
Donald Trump endorsed calling the globally played sport 'football' rather than 'soccer' during a World Cup draw event. He received FIFA's inaugural FIFA Peace Prize from federation President Gianni Infantino and appeared onstage with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The three leaders conducted the World Cup draw to assign participating countries to groups. Trump said the United States avoids calling the sport football because of a conflict with the term used by the NFL and proposed inventing another name for NFL football. The remarks drew applause at The Kennedy Center.
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