FIFA's President, Trump and this Quest for Global Harmony: A FIFA-Style Approach
'THIS-ISM … THAT-ISM …'
After María Corina Machado received the latest international peace honor for her "persistent efforts promoting civil liberties", Donald Trump responded displaying the type of magnanimous response you would anticipate. After tirelessly run a push of self-promotion to make certain he was the recipient, the president immediately claimed acknowledgment for the Venezuelan opposition leader's triumph, enumerated his own personally declared and often dubious successes in the domain of global peacemaking and challenged the authority of the selection panel who chose not to present the honor, monetary award and certificate to him.
While security concerns indicate it has yet to be determined if the newly crowned Nobel laureate will emerge from seclusion to receive her honor directly at the Scandinavian presentation in December, a particular overly deferential soccer organization chief seems hell-bent on taking her attention anyway. Indeed, the FIFA president has chosen to give an honor for peace of his original design in front of an international television viewership of hundreds of millions worldwide sports followers in the preceding days in the American capital.
An individual who has over many years advocated the importance of keeping politics out of the sport, especially when they're the type of political positions he deems awkward or simply doesn't like, the organization's head utilized his position at the American corporate gathering in Miami to promote his agenda about the capacity of football to unite people of all races and creed, particularly those who have extra over five thousand dollars accessible to acquire variable cost International Football Championship admissions.
"In a progressively uncertain and divided international society, it is essential to acknowledge the remarkable contribution of those who strive earnestly to end disagreements and unite individuals in a mindset of tranquility", he announced. "Soccer symbolizes unity and on behalf of the entire football community, the Fifa Peace Prize – The Game Brings Together will recognize the significant efforts of such persons who connect communities, bringing optimism for coming years."
Yet which individual could he indicate? While the FIFA president was prudent not to give clear signals about the identity of the inaugural award's lucky recipient, he proceeded to transition into a likely separate and flattering tribute to his present Best Friend Forever (Or In The Short Term), the US president. His comments definitely had the planned result. Globally, the most cynical among us were united in declaring they recognized precisely who would be winning the Pretend Peace Prize, with some even going so far as state totally unsupported assertions that the legally adjudicated and sports rule-breaking person in question might even have pressured the FIFA head to create it just to offset the chief executive's perception of unfairness at failing to receive the authentic award.
As credible a scenario as it seems, Football Daily holds a different view, mainly due to the fact that in recent months the increasingly ridiculous soccer administrator has worked his path to such an extent up Trump's digestive tract that it's quite possible this recent scheme was in fact his own idea.
And even though we can probably assume it is outside the president's restricted imagination to throw the mother of all curveballs by giving the initial (and possibly last) harmony award to Greta Thunberg, the Ukrainian leader or the person of Atalanta's coaching staff who intervened between the player and the manager to avoid an unpleasant major tournament sideline confrontation, one might desire the English defender and his football associates are invited along to Washington wearing uniforms to execute a revenge-hijack of the president's honor occasion.
That particular metallic unflushable-turd-on-a-plinth, or whichever additional comparably tasteful bauble the FIFA president opts to award the US leader for his services to international unity and unity, would sufficiently offset the championship award he infamously palmed and kept during the international club championship presentation ceremony.
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