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

'VARIOUS IDEOLOGIES … DIFFERENT APPROACHES …'

Following María Corina Machado was awarded the current year's Nobel Peace Prize for her "persistent work promoting civil liberties", Donald Trump responded with exactly the kind of magnanimous behavior you would predict. Having tirelessly managed a push of personal advancement to ensure he received the honor personally, the chief executive immediately took credit for the South American opposition leader's triumph, cataloged his own self-announced and frequently questionable successes in the field of global peacemaking and criticized the authority of the committee who chose not to grant the honor, cash prize and diploma to him.

While safety issues mean it is still uncertain if the recently honored award recipient will appear from concealment to pick up her honor personally at the Oslo ceremony in December, a certain obsequious football association leader seems intent on stealing her thunder nonetheless. Yup, Gianni Infantino has opted to award an honor for peace of his own creation in front of a worldwide broadcast audience of hundreds of millions global soccer enthusiasts earlier that week in the American capital.

A man who has over many years promoted the importance of preserving politics out of football, specifically when they're the kind of political positions he finds awkward or simply objects to, Infantino employed his stage at the American corporate gathering in the coastal metropolis to bang his drum about the power of the beautiful game to bring together citizens of all races and creed, especially those who have a spare significant financial resources available to purchase flexibly valued Geopolitics World Cup tickets.

"Within a growingly unsettled and divided global community, it's crucial to appreciate the remarkable work of people who strive earnestly to end disputes and connect communities in a spirit of harmony", he parped. "Soccer stands for harmony and on behalf of the entire sports family, the FIFA Harmony Award – Football Unites The World will celebrate the significant work of those individuals who bring together individuals, bringing hope for tomorrow's world."

However who could he mean? Although Infantino was prudent not to offer any clues concerning the identity of the first honor's selected honoree, he proceeded to segue into an almost certainly separate and obsequious tribute to his present Close Associate (Or At Least Until August Next Year), the US president. His words definitely had the planned result. Internationally, the most skeptical of commentators were united in asserting they understood exactly who would be receiving the Artificial Harmony Award, with some even going so far as state completely unfounded claims that the legally adjudicated and cheating-at-golf person under consideration might potentially compelled the organization leader to invent the honor simply to make up for the president's feeling of injustice at missing out on the genuine honor.

As plausible a scenario as it seems, Football Daily begs to differ, if only because in recent months the increasingly ridiculous soccer administrator has worked his path to such a degree up Trump's digestive tract that there's every chance this latest idea was truly his personal creation.

And although we can probably assume it stays outside the president's limited wit to throw the most unexpected development by giving the initial (and possibly last) peace prize to the environmental campaigner, the European statesman or the individual of the Italian team's technical team who got between the footballer and the manager to prevent a disagreeable important competition touchline flare-up, one might desire Reece James and his football associates are asked to attend to the city wearing uniforms to execute a revenge-hijack of the president's honor occasion.

The metallic unflushable-turd-on-a-plinth, or whatever other comparably suitable trinket the FIFA president decides to give the US leader for his contributions to global peace and unity, would adequately compensate for the winner's medal he infamously took and kept during the global team tournament presentation ceremony.

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