FIFA's President, Trump and the Quest for Peace: A FIFA-Style Approach
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After the Venezuelan opposition leader won the current year's prestigious peace award for her "persistent work advocating for civil liberties", the American president responded with the type of generous behavior people could anticipate. After persistently conducted a campaign of self-promotion to make certain he received the honor personally, the chief executive quickly took acknowledgment for the Venezuelan activist's achievement, listed his own self-announced and frequently debatable successes in the field of world conflict resolution and challenged the credibility of the awarding body who chose not to grant the medal, financial compensation and document to him.
While security concerns indicate it remains to be seen if the newly crowned peace prize winner will appear from hiding to collect her award in person at the Scandinavian presentation in the final month, a particular obsequious football association leader looks intent on appropriating her attention anyway. Yup, the football administrator has chosen to award an honor for peace of his personal invention in facing a global TV audience of hundreds of millions worldwide sports followers earlier that week in the American capital.
A man who has for years preached the significance of maintaining political matters out of football, specifically when they're the sort of politics he deems awkward or merely disapproves of, the FIFA leader used his stage at the America Business Forum in the coastal metropolis to bang his drum about the capacity of football to unite citizens of all races and creed, especially those who have extra over five thousand dollars available to acquire dynamically priced Global Soccer Tournament tickets.
"Within an increasingly unstable and separated international society, it is crucial to acknowledge the outstanding effort of those who strive earnestly to resolve disputes and bring people together in an attitude of harmony", he declared. "The sport symbolizes unity and on behalf of the entire soccer world, the FIFA Harmony Award – The Game Brings Together will honor the enormous efforts of those individuals who connect communities, providing optimism for coming years."
But who might he reference? While the football official was prudent not to offer specific indications regarding the person of the initial prize's fortunate winner, he went on to segue into a likely separate and sycophantic homage to his current Close Associate (Or In The Short Term), the US president. His statements certainly had the desired effect. Globally, the most doubtful among us were united in asserting they recognized specifically who would be receiving the Artificial Harmony Award, with various people even advancing to state entirely baseless assertions that the convicted felon and sports rule-breaking person in question might possibly pressured the FIFA head to invent the award merely to compensate for the chief executive's sense of grievance at missing out on the real thing.
As plausible a situation as it appears, Football Daily begs to differ, if only because in the preceding period the growingly preposterous soccer administrator has worked his path to such an extent into the president's favor that there's every chance this new wheeze was in fact his original concept.
And even though it's reasonable to suppose it is past the administrator's restricted imagination to present the most unexpected development by giving Fifa's first (and potentially concluding) peace prize to the climate activist, the European statesman or that member of Atalanta's coaching staff who intervened between the player and Ivan Juric to stop a disagreeable major tournament sideline confrontation, we can at least hope the Chelsea player and his football associates are requested to participate to Washington in full kit to perform a revenge-hijack of the leader's award event.
The golden debatable award, or whichever additional comparably suitable bauble the FIFA president decides to present the chief executive for his contributions to international unity and unity, would sufficiently offset the championship award he notoriously appropriated and retained during the Club World Cup final presentation ceremony.
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