{"id":327809,"date":"2025-12-05T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327809\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:22:18","slug":"trump-says-soccer-is-real-football-while-shading-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327809\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says soccer is ‘real football’ while shading NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump doesn\u2019t consider the National Football League as \u201creal football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather, he believes soccer is the real deal.<\/p>\n

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Speaking at the 2026 World Cup draw at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Trump wondered out loud whether the sport North Americans call soccer is really what Europeans have been calling it \u2014 football.<\/p>\n

He thinks the NFL should be renamed instead.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019ve thought soccer, or football, would be so big, so fast,\u201d said Trump, before going off on a tangent about soccer legend\u00a0Pel\u00e9.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I remember, I shouldn\u2019t say this because it was a long time ago, but I remember watching Pel\u00e9 play on a team called the Cosmos. Pel\u00e9, who is fantastic, I assume one of the greats. And he scored three goals out there. I said, \u2018That man can play.’\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to soccer in the United States, Trump said there\u2019s a \u201clittle bit of a conflict\u201d with \u201canother thing called football.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when you think about it, shouldn\u2019t it really be called football? I mean, this is football. There\u2019s no question about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff. But who would have thought it would have come to a level where you\u2019ve set your all-time season ticket records? Nobody\u2019s ever sold as many tickets. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you\u2019re still a long way from that ball being kicked down the field. What an incredible leap this has been. And congratulations to FIFA.\u201d<\/p>\n

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