Scoring points over what you call the game isn't on. Matt Williams/The Conversation At the 2026 World Cup draw, FIFA Peace Prize recipient and U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the game should really be called “football.” “There’s no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL. It really doesn’t make any sense,” said Trump, an apparently new convert to the round-ball game. He isn’t alone. The word “soccer” is, in some parts of the world, shunned by some fans. In