Why is a footballing organisation handing out peace prizes? Does the Nobel Committee award football prizes? Fair enough, give Pres Trump a nice trophy as co-host. Fifa does important work between nations but Infantino’s Fifa risks coming across as a political body #FIFAWorldCup
A peace prize for Trump by FIFA; who is arming and funding genocide in Palestine and shielding war criminal Netanyahu from accountability; by a new ‘social responsibility’ committee led by a person complicit under international law in the genocide of the Rohingya.
From a sport governing body with a human rights policy and very clear statutory provisions on anti-racism, anti-discrimination and promoting the International Bill of Rights.
Football, and FIFA, in 2025.
The exact opposite of social responsibility.
‘The background of the chair of the committee tasked with coming up with a proposal on the process may not convince everyone that he will speak truth to power either.
He is Zaw Zaw, the 59-year-old president of the Myanmar football federation for the past two decades who, along with his company, Max Myanmar, was the subject of EU and US economic sanctions at various points between 2009 and 2016.
The US state department described him in a press release in 2009 as one of the “cronies” of Myanmar’s brutal ruling military junta as it suppressed democracy and violated human rights.’
In one of the most pathetic and humiliating moments in history, Trump just received the new inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.
They literally invented a “peace prize” to keep him happy after he didn’t receive the actual Nobel Peace Prize. Beyond parody
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Historic moment on our Grand final weekend as our referees for the first time had the benefit of radio communication between them. This will be used in all our matches from now on and we will continually strive to aid our referees in every way we can.