Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/embarrassment-fifa-donald-trump-peace-prize?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

40 Comments

  1. One official was overheard muttering, “We survived Qatar. We can survive this. Probably.”

  2. Adventurous_Test_296 on

    Not growing fast enough. If it was, FIFA’s sense of outright shame would have caused them to revoke the stupid prize, make some sort of vacuous statement, and then disavow any association with the United States which is now a pariah.

  3. Latter_Tutor_5235 on

    How were they not embarrassed when they invented a whole prize just to placate Trump’s ego in the first place?

  4. Greedy-Year8384 on

    Why are they embarrassed now? He’s still just as much of a toddler now as he was then. Is it because he tantrumed his way into getting the prize their’s was serving as a consolation for?

  5. Ashamed-End-2138 on

    FIFA has been a shit show for decades. One of the few organisations in the world that’s possibly more corrupt than Trump and that takes some fucking doing!

  6. King bone spur little hands is doing us a favor, effectively helping us find the nazi fascists among us….Looks Like FIFA made the list…Europe, please act on your new knowledge

  7. FIFA is one of the most corrupt international organizations on the planet, notably. They openly created a fake prize just to present Trump as a bribe for US World Cup special favors. Who could possibly be a FIFA official and feel embarrassment at this point ?

  8. yoursandforever on

    A lot of N Americans are not familiar with FIFA. This is the first thing they’ve seen them do. Are they always this clownish?

  9. FIFA intentionally supports authoritarian regimes.. they have no sense of embarrassment.

  10. Abolish ICE

    Abolish the GOP

    Abolish FIFA

    Abolish The Olympic Committee

    Any that helped this regime terrorize the whole world

  11. DynamicFactotum on

    I doubt they feel embarrassed, FIFA has shown for the long time that they only care about money

  12. Gianni INFANTIno gave the toddler prez a “peace” trophy. Trump doesn’t know the difference between a yellow card and a penalty kick 

  13. I highly doubt Infantino has a shred of integrity that would allow him to feel embarrassment.

  14. UltravioletAfterglow on

    I’m actually shocked that anyone in FIFA’s so-called leadership has the self-awareness to be embarrassed by anything.

  15. Darth-mickyluv on

    Boycott, Boycott, Boycott!!

    That would be something that would actually hurt the orange turd.

  16. Favorite Reddit comment regarding rump’s arrest/capture/abduction/kidnapping of Maduro – “This makes a mockery of the venerable FIFA Peace Prize”

  17. They should be embarrassed. We’re all not surprised by the current corruption! This is FIFA after all.

  18. Actual-Photograph794 on

    Good chance there won’t be any European teams at what’s left of the WC, FIFA needs to get in the bin

  19. Fifa is purely transactional. Tit for tat. They now realized their “investment” has become worthless. Shit Midas is fucking up the World Cup.

  20. InternationalBug7568 on

    Wow, the prize already can be dubbed the Infantini Prize… because he had a tantrum- infinitly immature,.
    But so dangerous now.

  21. FIFA might be even more corrupt than Trump. They MIGHT be slightly concerned because if this Greenland situation escalates further, a world cup boycott from European clubs could happen (although I doubt it). My point is the worry is about themselves rather than having having any morals or ethics.