FIFA’s Gianni Infantino faces ethics complaint over Trump peace prize
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is facing an ethics complaint filed by human rights group FairSquare on December 10, 2025. The complaint alleges that Infantino violated FIFA's rules on political neutrality by awarding Donald Trump FIFA's inaugural peace prize.
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Open questions and key claims
Trump thanked FIFA on Friday and called the award “one of the great honours of my life”.
Infantino said at the glitzy ceremony, “This is your prize, this is your peace prize”.
Craig Mokhiber called the award to Trump a “truly shameful development”.
Fifa will launch its own peace prize, to be awarded each year.
Zaw Zaw is the president of the Myanmar football federation.
Zaw Zaw and his company, Max Myanmar, were subject to EU and US economic sanctions at various points between 2009 and 2016.
FIFA started a FIFA Peace Prize after Mr. Trump didn’t win the Nobel.
The announcement of the FIFA Peace Prize surprised several senior FIFA officials.
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