FIFA's President, The US Leader and this Pursuit for Global Harmony: An Association Football Approach

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When the Venezuelan opposition leader was awarded the latest prestigious peace award for her "persistent work advocating for political freedoms", the American president responded displaying exactly the type of Maga-nanimous behavior people could predict. Having persistently managed an effort of self-promotion to guarantee he received the honor personally, the leader quickly asserted credit for the South American opposition leader's triumph, enumerated his own personally declared and frequently questionable successes in the domain of world conflict resolution and criticized the authority of the committee who determined not to present the recognition, monetary award and document to him.

While safety issues indicate it remains to be seen if the recently honored peace prize winner will emerge from hiding to pick up her accolade in person at the Norwegian event in the final month, a particular excessively flattering Fifa president looks intent on taking her thunder regardless. Yup, the football administrator has opted to award a peace prize of his original design in front of a worldwide broadcast audience of numerous worldwide sports followers the previous week in the American capital.

A person who has for years preached the value of maintaining politics out of football, particularly when they're the type of politics he finds uncomfortable or just doesn't like, the organization's head used his stage at the America Business Forum in the Florida city to bang his drum about the power of soccer to bring together citizens of every color and belief, especially those who have a spare $5,000-plus available to buy dynamically priced International Football Championship admissions.

"In an increasingly unstable and fragmented world, it is crucial to recognize the exceptional work of individuals who strive earnestly to stop conflicts and connect communities in a spirit of harmony", he parped. "The sport represents unity and representing the complete football community, the FIFA Harmony Award – The Game Brings Together will honor the significant work of those individuals who connect communities, offering hope for coming years."

However which individual could he indicate? Although the FIFA president was prudent not to provide specific indications about the identity of the initial prize's selected honoree, he proceeded to transition into a likely distinct and obsequious tribute to his existing Best Friend Forever (Or At Least Until August Next Year), the US president. His statements certainly had the planned result. Internationally, the most doubtful among us were united in asserting they understood precisely who would be receiving the Artificial Harmony Award, with certain individuals even progressing to make entirely baseless assertions that the legally adjudicated and sports rule-breaking man-baby under consideration might possibly compelled the FIFA head to develop it just to offset the president's sense of grievance at failing to receive the real thing.

As credible a circumstance as it seems, The Athletic Coverage disagrees, particularly since in recent months the progressively ridiculous football official has worked his path to such a degree within the leader's circle that it's quite possible this latest idea was truly his own idea.

And while it's reasonable to suppose it remains past the president's restricted imagination to present the mother of all curveballs by giving the organization's inaugural (and possibly last) peace prize to the environmental campaigner, the European statesman or that member of Atalanta's coaching staff who stepped between Ademola Lookman and the manager to avoid an unedifying Bigger Cup sideline confrontation, one might desire Reece James and his club colleagues are invited along to the capital dressed in gear to conduct a response appropriation of the president's honor occasion.

That particular golden unflushable-turd-on-a-plinth, or whichever additional equally tasteful trinket the football official opts to give the American president for his efforts to international unity and unity, would sufficiently offset the victory honor he famously took and retained during the global team tournament presentation ceremony.

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