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
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/embarrassment-fifa-donald-trump-peace-prize
78 Comments
Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world · 287 pts · 242d
FIFA execs can feel embarassment? I don't buy it
dnub@piefed.social · 57 pts · 242d
My thoughts exactly, the "futbol mafia" embarrassed? No way
MrDrProf@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 241d
For the right price I'm sure they can feel shame
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 241d
They had someone build them a hyper realistic simulation of what embarrassing might feel like to a regular person.
FarrellPerks@feddit.uk · 179 pts · 242d
How are they just now getting embarrassed?
They presented a fucking 'peace' prize to a fascistic dictator and convicted rapist. They're a fucking laughing stock right alongside the orange degenerate.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 241d
Yeah, the article sounds like it was written by the Onion.
Are they concerned that Trump is diminishing the credibility of the award? The one they invented to transparently flatter the things of this exact, specific egomaniacal madman?
Sure Jan.
Dadifer@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 242d
Please. FIFA will suck whatever dick it has to.
atropa@piefed.social · 91 pts · 241d
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 87 pts · 242d
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 242d
Gowron?
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 242d
No way, Gowron has more honor in his pinky toe than that man has in his entire body.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 241d
And Gowron was definitely not an honorable Klingon.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 242d
Too true.
cygnus@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 242d
Found Martok's Lemmy account
telllos@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 242d
Is this real?
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 241d
He actually picked up the medal like that, however the face and hair are edited.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 241d
Partially
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 54 pts · 242d
These and the Olympics are going to be like the 1936 Olympics, but like a farcical tragicomedy.
prex@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 242d
Boycott.
And that's coming from an Australian.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 15 pts · 242d
I'm too poor to afford a ticket. But I can always not even watch the games :D
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 241d
Yes that's part of a boycott. Their ratings are absolutely important to them.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
Even better, watch the games and compile a list of all the sponsors buying a commercial during the games. Then publish and boycott.
That's what we did with Berlusconi's TV channels.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 241d
Good stuff, use ad exposure against them, haha.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
Here is the basic starting list:
Visa
adidas
The Coca-Cola Company
Qatar Airways
Aramco
Hyundai & Kia
Lenovo
Bank of America (Official Bank Sponsor)
Hisense (Official Sponsor)
Lay’s (Official Sponsor)
McDonald’s
Mengniu
Verizon (Official Telecommunication Services Sponsor)
AB InBev / Budweiser (official World Cup beer through 2026)
Unilever (FIFA partnership explicitly includes FIFA World Cup 2026)
Airbnb (Official Supporter for FIFA World Cup 26™ in North America)
The Home Depot (Official Home Improvement Retail Supporter in North America)
Diageo (Official Spirits Supporter in North, Central and South America)
Rock-it Cargo (Official Logistics Provider; also noted as a Tournament Supporter)
Valvoline Global (Official Supporter)
On Location (Official Hospitality Provider)
American Airlines (Official North American Airline Supplier)
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 241d
Yeah, most of those are easy to avoid. Unilever is harder.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
Coke is bigger than most think, though.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
"First as a tragedy, then as a farce"
BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip · 49 pts · 241d
Where was the "embarrassment" when they had the world cup in Russia in 2018 and when they had it in Qatar? Ultimately embarrassment ought to result in action but I'm not sure it will here.
hector@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 241d
From what I have heard this last decade fifa is about the only organization as openly and shamelessly corrupt as the president.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 241d
Boycott the World Cup, boycott the Olympics, boycott America.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 10 pts · 241d
Sounds good, I'm in
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 241d
Imported canned tomatoes were cheaper than domestic versions at my grocery store last week. Soon, it may even be possible to boycott America from inside! 🤣
peetabix@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 241d
Just like when it was the Qatar World Cup, I refuse to watch it or talk about it.
Cherry@piefed.social · 26 pts · 242d
FIFA are giving peace prizes? Why? Their sense of importance is astounding. They need to get back to grassroots.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 242d
It's just bribery. Give Trump something shiny and expensive with "Trump is great" written on it and he'll treat you favorably.
Mihies@programming.dev · 17 pts · 242d
It doesn't last long, though. He already forgot about it after Machado gave him real Nobel peace prize, if not sooner.
Cherry@piefed.social · 3 pts · 242d
Did anyone else get one?…I might apply 😆
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 242d
Fifa want trump to change "soccer" to "football" and trump wanted a peace prize.
So FIFA made up a peace prize and gave it to trump.
And for like an afternoon trump rambled about how football should mean the same in America as everywhere else. But his followers didn't latch on to it because no one in maga gives a fuck about soccer.
Fifa gained nothing, and made people hate them even more. I really don't know why Europe doesn't just make their own. FIFA has been corrupt and holding the sport back for decades.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 242d
Remember when maga swore off football bc colin, the knee, and the flag?
Why they still here...?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
Are you telling me a group of grown men give a s*** about what the United States calls football?
mika_mika@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
Have you met men?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 241d
They specially made it up just to give Trump.
It was a bribe.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 241d
Because Obama got a Nobel peace prize, Trump is obsessed with getting one himself. That's why.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 241d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 241d
Annual? Did fifa actually give these out before? I thought this was special just for Trump.
prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 241d
Yeah, that actually changes things. Not a lot, but very slightly. Like, whatever unit is smaller than a Planck length.
Edit: it's an "annual" prize, but Trump got the first one. I would be surprised if there was another, but maybe he'll win that one too.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 241d
It’s just so coincidental that Trumpie keeps winning.
webp@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 241d
Unity?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 241d
Hard to imagine FIFA being capable of embarrassment.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 241d
They’re just worried that people are talking about boycotting the US World Cup.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 240d
Bullshit. Those fucks are incapable of shame.
Mountainman@feddit.org · 2 pts · 240d
I agree. I don't think that they are capable of such feelings. Nor do I think that they have a moral compass. FIFA is corrupt as Trump
filister@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 241d
They can't go any lower than this in their effort to appease a megalomaniac.
If they were so worried about world peace they should have barred the Israeli football clubs from participating in any international tournaments.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 241d
Stop giving peace prizes to American heads of state and their cabinets, it has never gone well. Henry Kissinger has a nobel one.
blattrules@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 241d
Are they afraid their fake award is going to lose credibility because they gave it to the person they made it up for and he doesn’t deserve it?
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 10 pts · 242d
Who could have possibly seen bad behaviors coming from him...
Sounds like an org that just follows whatever they perceive as the popular thing. Little donnie has been sinking for a while where even the most fervent base is cheering for him with a half-hearted smile while looking around for support.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d
Also sounds like an org that wants its event, which depends on visas for its players to happen at all and on visas for its fans to be a commercial success, to get special treatment from the Orange Menace.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 242d
It was never not embarrassing.
BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 241d
imagine caring at all about rich people and their fake prizes
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 240d
I'm sure FIFA is "really embarrassed". They're so sad they started using $20 bills to dry their tears.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 5 pts · 241d
Oh so there is a line after all?
BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 241d
Ah yess, the famous football player. Shoot five Hattricks in one game.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 240d
FIFA should take their peace prize and shove it. I hope they lose a lot of money on this year's world cup.
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 241d
My first thought when reading the title was that he could also claim the Fifa World Cup Trophy. It was meant to be a joke, but now I am not so sure that it won't happen :-)
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
They really do look like massive dorks now.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
Surely that ship has sailed a while back.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
There nominative determination could've clued them in.
plyth@feddit.org · -15 pts · 242d
They got validated by Trump receiving the Nobel Peace Price medal.
Are they saying that the image of the Nobel Peace Price is so bad that the FIFA peace price shouldn't be associated with it?
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 242d
I don't see trump's name on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 242d
That's just wild...
Do you honestly think trump "received a novel peace prize" because some idiot who should have never been awarded one gifted trump a physical medal?
Like, I'm literally dumbfounded here, please elaborate on what you think happened with trump and a Nobel peace prize.
plyth@feddit.org · -3 pts · 242d
I agree. So if the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is not ashamed, why should FIFA be?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 242d
What?!
If you bought a bronze Olympic medal at a pawn shop, would you start declaring that you were awarded a bronze Olympic medal?
What the actual fuck are you even talking about?
plyth@feddit.org · -5 pts · 241d
Machado was asking for a regime change before she received the prize. So either the commitee was sloppy or they gave her the prize for that. Now if Trump fulfills her request, how much more worthy is he of a peace prize?
Downvoters, start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
Alright...
This is the point I give up on you ever being able to understand this.
I'm gonna go do something that has a chance of being productive, like teaching my dog how to do a one dog performance of The Nutty Proffesor, there's a slight chance he pulls it off.
You're never going to understand trump wasn't awarded a fucking Nobel
plyth@feddit.org · -6 pts · 241d
I didn't say that he got it. FIFA just doesn't have to be ashamed of awarding their medal as long as we respect the Nobel prize.
tburkhol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
FIFA are trend setters. Surely, there's a line forming of other Nobel Laureates excited to turn over their medals for a favor from POTUS.
plyth@feddit.org · -1 pts · 241d
Remember that Obama got the medal at the beginning of his term.
tburkhol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
Are you suggesting that Obama is one of the Nobel Laureates negotiating to gift his medal to Trump? What do you think a former President wants from the current President?
plyth@feddit.org · -2 pts · 241d
No. I am pointing out that Obama had received the prize in advance to make him bring peace instead of celebrating good deeds afterwards. In a way, they did already "turn over their medal for a favor from POTUS".