{"id":612,"date":"2026-01-18T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/givemesoccer.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:00:54","slug":"growing-sense-of-embarrassment-at-fifa-over-donald-trump-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/givemesoccer.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Mid-level and senior officials uncomfortable with award<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fifa says it still \u2018strongly\u2019 supports the peace prize<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a growing sense of embarrassment among mid-level and senior officials within Fifa over the awarding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/dec\/05\/fifa-peace-prize-trump-world-cup-infantino\">its peace prize to Donald Trump<\/a>. The US president was handed the award at the World Cup draw in Washington DC in December with the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, telling Trump: \u201cWe want to see hope, we want to see unity, we want to see a future. This is what we want to see from a leader and you definitely deserve the first Fifa Peace Prize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the US has launched airstrikes across Venezuela and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/03\/trump-venezuela-oil-industry\">captured the country\u2019s president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro,<\/a> and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them to the US, where he was put in jail. Maduro appeared in court on 5 January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/05\/maduro-pleads-not-guilty\">pleading not guilty to drugs, weapons and \u201cnarco-terrorism\u201d charges<\/a>. Trump has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/09\/trump-greenland-threats-white-house\">threatened to invade Greenland<\/a> because he said the US needs the territory \u201cvery badly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jan\/18\/embarrassment-fifa-donald-trump-peace-prize\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Mid-level and senior officials uncomfortable with award<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fifa says it still \u2018strongly\u2019 supports the peace prize<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a growing sense of embarrassment among mid-level and senior officials within Fifa over the awarding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/dec\/05\/fifa-peace-prize-trump-world-cup-infantino\">its peace prize to Donald Trump<\/a>. The US president was handed the award at the World Cup draw in Washington DC in December with the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, telling Trump: \u201cWe want to see hope, we want to see unity, we want to see a future. This is what we want to see from a leader and you definitely deserve the first Fifa Peace Prize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the US has launched airstrikes across Venezuela and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/03\/trump-venezuela-oil-industry\">captured the country\u2019s president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro,<\/a> and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them to the US, where he was put in jail. Maduro appeared in court on 5 January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/05\/maduro-pleads-not-guilty\">pleading not guilty to drugs, weapons and \u201cnarco-terrorism\u201d charges<\/a>. Trump has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/09\/trump-greenland-threats-white-house\">threatened to invade Greenland<\/a> because he said the US needs the territory \u201cvery badly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jan\/18\/embarrassment-fifa-donald-trump-peace-prize\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napoli-eye-tolu-arokodare-as-striker-hunt-intensifies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize - GiveMeSoccer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/givemesoccer.com\/?p=612\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize - GiveMeSoccer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mid-level and senior officials uncomfortable with awardFifa says it still \u2018strongly\u2019 supports the peace prizeThere is a growing sense of embarrassment among mid-level and senior officials within Fifa over the awarding of its peace prize to Donald Trump. 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