FIFA's President, Trump and the Pursuit for Peace: A FIFA-Style Initiative

'MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES … DIVERSE VIEWPOINTS …'

When the Venezuelan opposition leader received this year's international peace honor for her "persistent efforts supporting civil liberties", Donald Trump reacted displaying exactly the kind of Maga-nanimous response one might anticipate. Having persistently run a push of self-promotion to make certain he received the honor personally, the leader quickly claimed credit for the Venezuelan opposition leader's triumph, enumerated his own self-proclaimed and often questionable achievements in the field of international diplomacy and attacked the authority of the awarding body who chose not to grant the recognition, monetary award and diploma to him.

Although safety issues suggest it remains to be seen if the recently honored award recipient will come forward from seclusion to receive her honor in person at the Norwegian event in December, a particular excessively flattering soccer organization chief seems determined on appropriating her attention regardless. Certainly, the football administrator has decided to present an honor for peace of his own creation in facing a global TV audience of numerous worldwide sports followers the previous week in the US city.

A man who has over many years advocated the importance of maintaining politics away from soccer, especially when they are the kind of political positions he deems inconvenient or merely disapproves of, Infantino employed his platform at the America Business Forum in the Florida city to bang his drum about the ability of the beautiful game to connect citizens of diverse ethnicities and creed, particularly those who have additional over five thousand dollars available to buy dynamically priced Geopolitics World Cup tickets.

"Within a growingly uncertain and fragmented world, it is crucial to acknowledge the remarkable effort of those who work hard to stop disagreements and bring people together in an attitude of tranquility", he announced. "The sport stands for unity and on behalf of the complete soccer world, the Fifa Peace Prize – The Game Brings Together will recognize the enormous efforts of these people who connect communities, offering confidence for future generations."

But who might he reference? Although Infantino was careful not to give any clues concerning the person of the first honor's selected honoree, he proceeded to segue into a likely unrelated and sycophantic recognition to his present Best Friend Forever (Or In The Short Term), the US president. His words definitely had the desired effect. Internationally, the most cynical of commentators were aligned in asserting they understood precisely who would be obtaining the Pretend Peace Prize, with various people even advancing to present entirely baseless assertions that the convicted felon and cheating-at-golf man-baby being discussed might even have forced the FIFA head to invent it just to compensate for the leader's sense of grievance at not obtaining the real thing.

As believable a circumstance as it seems, Football Daily begs to differ, if only because in recent months the progressively ridiculous Fifa boss has burrowed his way to such an extent into the president's favor that there's every chance this recent scheme was truly his own idea.

And even though one might reasonably conclude it is past Infantino's limited wit to present the most unexpected development by handing the initial (and perhaps final) ever PPP to the environmental campaigner, Volodymyr Zelenskyy or that member of Atalanta's coaching staff who stepped between the player and Ivan Juric to avoid a disagreeable Bigger Cup bench disagreement, it's possible to wish the English defender and his club colleagues are requested to participate to Washington dressed in gear to conduct a revenge-hijack of the president's honor occasion.

That golden questionable trophy, or whichever additional equally appropriate bauble the football official opts to give the chief executive for his contributions to world harmony and cooperation, would more than make up for the winner's medal he notoriously appropriated and pocketed during the international club championship honor occasion.

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