FIFA's President, The US Leader and this Pursuit for Global Harmony: An Association Football Approach

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After the Venezuelan opposition leader won this year's international peace honor for her "persistent work promoting democratic rights", Donald Trump reacted with exactly the sort of Maga-nanimous behavior people could anticipate. Having consistently managed a campaign of personal advancement to guarantee he was the recipient, the president quickly claimed responsibility for the South American activist's achievement, enumerated his own self-announced and frequently debatable achievements in the area of global peacemaking and attacked the authority of the selection panel who chose not to grant the medal, financial compensation and diploma to him.

While security concerns suggest it remains to be seen if the recently honored Nobel laureate will emerge from hiding to receive her award personally at the Scandinavian presentation in December, a certain overly deferential football association leader looks hell-bent on appropriating her spotlight nonetheless. Indeed, Gianni Infantino has decided to give a peace prize of his own creation in front of a worldwide broadcast audience of countless numbers worldwide sports followers the previous week in Washington.

An individual who has throughout numerous seasons preached the importance of maintaining governmental issues away from the sport, particularly when they are the type of political positions he finds inconvenient or simply doesn't like, the organization's head utilized his stage at the America Business Forum in the Florida city to promote his agenda about the power of football to bring together individuals of every color and faith, especially those who have extra significant financial resources accessible to acquire flexibly valued International Football Championship tickets.

"In an increasingly uncertain and divided world, it's crucial to acknowledge the outstanding effort of individuals who labor diligently to resolve conflicts and bring people together in a mindset of tranquility", he announced. "The sport stands for peace and representing the whole football community, the FIFA Harmony Award – Football Unites The World will recognize the significant endeavors of such persons who unite people, offering hope for tomorrow's world."

However which individual could he indicate? While Infantino was prudent not to offer specific indications about the identity of the initial prize's fortunate winner, he proceeded to segue into a likely unrelated and sycophantic tribute to his present Close Associate (Or In The Short Term), Trump. His comments certainly had the intended outcome. Globally, the most doubtful of observers were aligned in declaring they knew precisely who would be winning the Simulated Unity Honor, with some even advancing to make totally unsupported assertions that the convicted felon and cheating-at-golf individual under consideration might possibly pressured the FIFA head to create the award simply to compensate for the chief executive's sense of grievance at missing out on the authentic award.

As believable a situation as it seems, The Sports Publication begs to differ, if only because in the preceding period the increasingly ridiculous Fifa boss has maneuvered himself so far up Trump's digestive tract that it's very likely this recent scheme was in fact his personal creation.

And while it's reasonable to suppose it remains outside the president's constrained creativity to present the ultimate surprise by presenting the initial (and possibly last) harmony award to Greta Thunberg, Volodymyr Zelenskyy or that member of the soccer club's training personnel who intervened between the footballer and the coach to stop a disagreeable Bigger Cup sideline confrontation, it's possible to wish the English defender and his Chelsea teammates are requested to participate to the capital wearing uniforms to perform a revenge-hijack of the president's honor occasion.

That gilded unflushable-turd-on-a-plinth, or any other comparably tasteful ornament the FIFA president decides to give the American president for his efforts to world harmony and unity, would sufficiently offset the victory honor he notoriously appropriated and kept during the Club World Cup final award event.

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