Team USA soccer player DeJuan Jones and MLS player Dominique Badji spoke to Fox News Digital about the upcoming World Cup, their hope to spread world peace through their sport, and the debate over re-naming soccer to "football" in America.

The relationship between FIFA and the White House has grown remarkably close ahead of Friday's draw at the Kennedy Center

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare had no idea that those same words would apply to one of today’s ongoing terminology rivalries stretching across the Atlantic – the debate of association football versus soccer.

Argentine authorities raided the offices of the country’s football federation early Tuesday as part of a corruption probe, according to local media, heightening tensions between President Javier Milei’s government and national soccer czar Claudio Tapia.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Prosecutors in Istanbul on Friday issued arrest warrants for dozens of soccer players and officials in relation to a betting scandal that has shaken Turkey. Among those detained in early morning police raids were players from Turkey’s leading clubs: Mert Hakan Yandas of Fenerbahce and Metehan Baltaci of national champions Galatasaray.