FIFA World Cup | Gianni Infantino Under Fire: FIFA's Trump Peace Prize Kicked Up A Global Storm

FIFA World Cup | Gianni Infantino Under Fire: FIFA's Trump Peace Prize Kicked Up A Global Storm Gianni Infantino has never been a stranger to controversy, but this one is hitting differently. Barely a week after he stepped onto a glittering stage at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center and handed Donald Trump the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, the FIFA president is now staring at a formal ethics complaint that goes right to the heart of the organisation's biggest rule: stay out of politics. The complaint comes from FairSquare, a well-known human-rights advocacy group, which has accused Infantino of "four clear breaches" of FIFA's neutrality code. Their point is straightforward: giving a peace prize to a sitting, polarising political leader-who is also actively campaigning-crosses a line FIFA has long claimed to police with ferocity