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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been accused of violating his own organization\u2019s rules on political neutrality after he invented a new award and promptly gave it to his \u201cclose friend\u201d Donald Trump last week ahead of the United States hosting its first World Cup in decades. <\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump receives the FIFA Peace Prize from Gianni Infantino on Dec. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n
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FairSquare, a nonprofit organization that says it works to \u201cprevent sporting institutions contributing to harm and suffering,\u201d this week filed an official complaint with FIFA\u2019s Ethics Committee over what it called \u201crepeated breaches\u201d of the organization\u2019s neutrality law by Infantino, The Athletic<\/a> first reported. <\/p>\n The complaint was sparked by Infantino awarding the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize to Trump on Friday, an honor Infantino made up and announced last month without prior approval from the organization\u2019s board, called the FIFA Council. <\/p>\n FairSquare called on the FIFA Ethics Committee to investigate how Trump came to be awarded the prize and also highlighted several other times Infantino has openly flouted his support of Trump, including an Inauguration Day Instagram post in which the FIFA leader said he and Trump would \u201cnot only make America great again, but also the entire world.\u201d <\/p>\n FairSquare said Infantino “does not have the authority to unilaterally dictate the organisation\u2019s mission, strategic direction, policies and values,” and said the peace prize ordeal was just the latest way he has acted “in ways that are both dangerous and directly contrary to the interests of the world\u2019s most popular sport.\u201d <\/p>\n Infantino did not immediately respond to Forbes\u2019 request for comment Tuesday. <\/p>\n Get Forbes Breaking News Text Alerts: We\u2019re launching text message alerts so you’ll always know the biggest stories shaping the day\u2019s headlines. Text \u201cAlerts\u201d to (201) 335-0739<\/a> or sign up here<\/a>: joinsubtext.com\/forbes.<\/a><\/p>\n Crucial Quote<\/p>\n \u201cThe award of a prize of this nature to a sitting political leader is in and of itself a clear breach of Fifa\u2019s duty of neutrality,\u201d FairSquare\u2019s letter to the Ethics Committee said. <\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been accused of violating his own organization\u2019s rules on political neutrality after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,3274,19200,43,145649,44,41,39,42,40,3277,13009],"class_list":["post-335562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-fifa","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-headlines","tag-infantino","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}