Right, Mario. We in the USA use the almost equally confusing "next," as in "next Friday". Unfortunately, this means different things to different people, especially in certain regions of the country. If today were Wednesday and you were to say "next Friday" in some places, they would believe you to be referring to the most immediate one. Elsewhere, they would take it to mean the one at the end of the following week. In still other areas it could even refer to the third Friday. Someone once told me, "If I had meant the Friday next week, I would have said, 'this coming Friday. Next means the one after.'" You'll see almost the same confusion when folks say, "this Friday".

The explanation of "the Friday" given by Snuffy is the way this was explained to me when I was in England and seems to be almost universally understood there in that way.