Nairobi, Nov. 29 -- World football governing body FIFA loathes politics in the game. But what happens when Iran meets the US amid their political tensions?

On Tuesday at 10pm EAT, we may know the impact may go beyond sport. The US team was already fielding political questions from Iranian journalists on the eve of the match at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar.

And coach Gregg Berhalter and team captain Tyler Adams technically became US diplomats, fending off criticism of their country.

"Why hasn't the coach asked the US government to remove a naval ship from the sea near Iran?" posed one Iranian reporter to the US coach, to which he replied he was just a 'soccer' coach, not a politician.

Adams fended off the question of represent...