FIFA Committee to Review Future of Peace Prize; White House Says No One in the World Is More Deserving Than Trump
WASHINGTON — FIFA is taking a second look at the Peace Prize it handed to U.S. President Donald Trump last December. At a FIFA Council meeting in Zurich on Thursday, the council asked its Football Social Responsibility Committee to decide whether the prize should be handed out again and whether its criteria should be changed, according to Front Office Sports.
English Football Association president Debbie Hewitt, a member of the FIFA Council, told reporters the committee will look at "whether there should have been [a prize], how the decision was taken to award it, and whether there should be another one."
FIFA introduced the Peace Prize last November, saying the award would recognize "individuals who, through their unwavering commitment and their special actions, have helped to unite people all over the world in peace." FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented the first edition of the prize to Trump at the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., a month later; Trump described it as "truly one of the great honors of my life."
The decision drew pushback from some national federations. Norway Football Federation president Lise Klaveness said in June that her federation had sent FIFA a letter backing a formal complaint over the prize.
"President Trump's Peace through Strength foreign policy is a tried-and-true approach that keeps America safe and deters global threats that has already ended eight wars in less than a year," White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Front Office Sports. "There is no one else in the world more deserving of FIFA's first ever Peace Prize than President Trump."
Infantino is running unopposed for a fourth and final term as FIFA president in March, while UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin has called for him to step down. (GSM, from Front Office Sports reporting)
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