FIFA Ethics Committee Told to Investigate President’s Bestest Best Pal Trump
KEY POINTS
- •FIFA president Gianni Infantino publicly called Donald Trump a 'close friend' and awarded him the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.
- •FairSquare co-director Nick McGeehan submitted a formal ethics complaint urging FIFA to investigate alleged neutrality breaches.
- •FIFA’s Code of Ethics demands political neutrality, and violating this can lead to a ban of up to two years.
In a dazzling display of sports-politics mashup worthy of a reality TV crossover, FIFA president Gianni Infantino has publicly crowned Donald Trump his 'close friend' and awarded him the just-created FIFA Peace Prize at last Friday’s 2026 World Cup draw in DC. Meanwhile, London-based human rights nonprofit FairSquare, via co-director Nick McGeehan, threw a complaint at FIFA's Ethics Committee faster than a soccer ball hitting the crossbar, accusing Infantino of doing the political equivalent of slide-tackling FIFA's Code of Ethics. The complaint alleges Infantino violated FIFA’s mandatory 'Duty of Neutrality,' risking a soccer ban of up to two years — apparently FIFA thinks political partisanship is worse than a red card in extra time. No comment yet from the Ethics Committee, who presumably just checked their group chat.
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FIFA’s ‘Duty of Neutrality’ just got an upgrade: now includes zero tolerance for best friend politics and Trump-era peace prizes. Soccer’s never been so awkward.
Gianni Infantino handing Trump a FIFA Peace Prize is like sending a firefighter to toast the arsonist—sports diplomacy redefined, or disastrously misfired?
Awarding Trump the FIFA Peace Prize? Next up: the Nobel Prize for 'Most Consistent Twitter Rants' goes to the same guy.
Source: Axios | Published: 12/10/2025 | Author: Rebecca Falconer
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