FIFA's President, Trump and this Pursuit for Global Harmony: A FIFA-Style Initiative

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After María Corina Machado was awarded the latest international peace honor for her "dedicated work supporting democratic rights", the American president responded with exactly the sort of Maga-nanimous response people could predict. After consistently managed a campaign of self-promotion to guarantee he won it himself, the chief executive promptly claimed responsibility for the Venezuelan activist's achievement, cataloged his own self-announced and often questionable successes in the area of global peacemaking and challenged the authority of the committee who chose not to grant the recognition, financial compensation and document to him.

While security concerns suggest it is still uncertain if the newly crowned peace prize winner will emerge from concealment to collect her honor personally at the Scandinavian presentation in December, an especially excessively flattering football association leader appears hell-bent on taking her thunder anyway. Yup, the football administrator has decided to award a peace prize of his personal invention in front of a worldwide broadcast audience of countless numbers worldwide sports followers in the preceding days in the American capital.

A person who has over many years preached the importance of maintaining political matters out of football, specifically when they're the type of politics he deems inconvenient or just disapproves of, the FIFA leader used his platform at the America Business Forum in Miami to advocate his position about the ability of football to connect citizens of all races and creed, especially those who have extra $5,000-plus available to acquire flexibly valued International Football Championship admissions.

"Within a growingly unsettled and separated global community, it's crucial to acknowledge the remarkable effort of those who labor diligently to resolve disputes and connect communities in a spirit of peace", he declared. "Football symbolizes harmony and representing the entire sports family, the Fifa Peace Prize – Soccer Connects Globally will recognize the significant work of these people who connect communities, offering optimism for future generations."

However which individual could he indicate? Although Infantino was careful not to offer clear signals about the identity of the initial prize's lucky recipient, he went on to transition into a likely separate and flattering tribute to his present Personal Ally (Or At Least Until August Next Year), Trump. His statements certainly had the planned result. Globally, the most doubtful of observers were joined in stating they understood precisely who would be winning the Pretend Peace Prize, with certain individuals even advancing to make totally unsupported assertions that the legally adjudicated and competitive misconduct individual being discussed might potentially compelled the FIFA head to develop the honor just to make up for the leader's perception of unfairness at failing to receive the genuine honor.

As credible a situation as it appears, The Sports Publication disagrees, mainly due to the fact that in the preceding period the progressively preposterous football official has burrowed his way to such an extent up Trump's digestive tract that it's very likely this recent scheme was actually his personal creation.

And even though we can probably assume it remains outside the administrator's constrained creativity to throw the ultimate surprise by presenting the initial (and perhaps final) peace prize to Greta Thunberg, Volodymyr Zelenskyy or the individual of the Italian team's technical team who intervened between the player and Ivan Juric to avoid a disagreeable major tournament sideline confrontation, it's possible to wish the Chelsea player and his Chelsea teammates are asked to attend to the city wearing uniforms to execute a revenge-hijack of Trump's presentation ceremony.

That particular gilded unflushable-turd-on-a-plinth, or whatever other equally suitable bauble Infantino opts to award the American president for his efforts to world harmony and togetherness, would sufficiently offset the championship award he infamously palmed and kept during the Club World Cup final award event.

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