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President Donald Trump suggested the American sport of football should have a different name so that soccer, which is called football in nearly every other country, can assume the name.

Trump made his comments during the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., Friday while discussing soccer’s growth in the U.S.

“When you look at what has happened to football in the United States, again soccer in the United States, we seem to never call it that 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, I mean this is football, there’s no question about it. We need to come up with another name for the NFL stuff,” Trump said.

“It really doesn’t make sense when you

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