USMNT captain Tyler Adams says FIFA World Cup can 'bring people together' despite 'crazy' times in world

A planetary spotlight volition beryllium shining down connected the 2026 FIFA World Cup 1 period from today, arsenic teams from each implicit volition converge connected the United States, Mexico and Canada to statesman the highly anticipated tourney connected the pitch. 

But portion the World Cup brings astir positivity and affable contention for billions astir the world, real-life problems inactive exist. 

One of those situations is recovered successful the Middle East, arsenic the U.S. and Iran, who besides qualified for the World Cup, stay an unfastened conflict. FIFA president Gianni Infantino has said Iran "for sure" volition play successful the World Cup contempt the conflict. 

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Tyler Adams of the United States moves with the shot during a crippled against Costa Rica astatine U.S. Bank Stadium successful Minneapolis, Minn., connected June 29, 2025. (John Dorton/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images)

Tyler Adams, the U.S. men’s nationalist team’s midfielder and captain, didn’t remark straight astir the Middle East conflict, but helium knows that contempt "crazy" things happening astir the world, the crippled of shot and the World Cup tin beryllium a unifying clip for everyone.

"Soccer brings everybody unneurotic nary substance the situation," helium told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview, portion besides highlighting his concern and enactment with Scotts. "That’s thing I gravitated towards erstwhile I wanted to play the sport. The diverseness successful it. How immoderate state you spell to, there’s shot fields nary substance wherever you are successful the world. It’s that 1 athletics that you find everywhere.

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"I deliberation this lawsuit is truly going to bring radical together, and I truly anticipation it brings the American radical unneurotic arsenic well."

Adams’ archetypal World Cup came successful 2022 erstwhile helium represented the U.S. alongside his teammates astatine a precise arguable big tract of Qatar. From disapproval of the country’s quality rights violations to decease of migrant workers during stadium construction, galore accused Qatar of sports washing passim the tournament.

But Adams believes 4 years later, nary substance what is happening astir the world, the World Cup tin supply positivity, camaraderie and unity.

Tyler Adams #4 of the United States advances the shot during a crippled against Japan astatine Lower.com Field successful Columbus, Ohio, connected Sept. 9, 2025. (John Dorton/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images)

"I deliberation that times successful the satellite are evidently brainsick close now. When there’s a batch of uncertainty successful the world, there’s thing similar a World Cup wherever radical tin adjacent their eyes for a 2nd and truly acquisition thing special," helium said. "So, again, I deliberation that occurrence we person tin truly determination the needle successful however the athletics grows successful our state and I’m hoping we tin bash that."

While the U.S. has ne'er won a World Cup, Adams knows this radical is simply a peculiar one, particularly aft the acquisition they had successful 2022. They were greenish successful Qatar but now, with a location assemblage down them, Adams is assured his radical has what it takes to not conscionable marque it retired of Group D, but marque a tally astatine the trophy.

 "I deliberation the equilibrium we person wrong our squad is truthful good," helium said. "So galore of these guys I grew up with for specified a agelong clip now. They’re immoderate of my closest friends, guys I speech to each day. So, astatine the bare minimum, we’re conscionable going to beryllium excited to bent retired together, person the banter successful the changing country that we person with 1 another, and truly conscionable bask the full process."

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The U.S. volition footwear disconnected its radical signifier successful Los Angeles astatine SoFi Stadium against Paraguay connected June 12. Meanwhile, Iran volition beryllium playing astatine the aforesaid big tract 3 days later. 

"We anticipation that, by then, of course, the concern volition beryllium a peaceful situation," Infantino said during the CNBC Invest successful America Forum past period successful Washington, D.C. astir the Middle East conflict. "That would decidedly help. But Iran has to come, of course. They correspond their people. They person qualified. The players privation to play."

Tyler Adams of the United States salutes fans aft the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 lucifer against the Netherlands astatine Khalifa International Stadium successful Doha connected Dec. 3, 2022. (Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images)

GROWING THE GAME WITH SCOTTS

Speaking of increasing the game, Scotts, North America’s starring tract attraction products brand, partnered with Adams with it’s "Keep It Real" initiative, which is aimed astatine expanding entree to younker sports and greenish space, backing implicit $432,000 portion partnering with "Every Kid Sports to assistance implicit 2,000 kids crossed 48 states. 

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As portion of the effort, Scotts and Adams, who are spotlighting the worth of earthy writer successful presumption of safer play, helped reconstruct earthy writer fields wherever the adjacent procreation tin turn the game. One of those was adjacent his hometown field.

"When they came to maine with this thought and this initiative, it was rather simple. I deliberation 1 of the biggest things I request to bash arsenic a nonrecreational jock present is springiness backmost to my community. That being said, I americium giving backmost to my assemblage with the concern wherever we did a tract time past summertime and we’re restoring the tract I played connected arsenic a kid. It was beauteous chill to spell backmost location and spot that a marque I’m moving with supports the ideas I person and springiness backmost to that community. Really, truly grateful for that and the partnership. We’re starting to bash truly bully things."

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