2 h. ago FIFA president Gianni Infantino promises World Cup crackdown on online abuse

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has promised to take action against people abusing players, managers and referees with more than 30,000 posts already flagged

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on Fifa’s new ‘peace prize’: Gianni Infantino should concentrate on the day job | Editorial

The president of world football’s governing body should abandon geopolitical networking and address criticisms over World Cup ticketing To general bemusement, Gianni Infantino, the president of world football’s governing body, Fifa, was pictured congratulating Donald Trump last month at the Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, having been personally invited by the US president. Mr Infantino did not hold back in lauding the president’s peace-making prowess, commenting: “Now we can really write some new pages. Pages of togetherness, of peace, in a region which really, really needs it.”News that Fifa is to launch its own annual peace prize, with the inaugural award to take place in Washington next month, would therefore seem to point to only one outcome. To use a metaphor from another sport, it surely looks like a slam dunk for the man Fifa’s president describes as a “winner” and “close friend”. As Mr Infantino told an American business forum on the day he announce...

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9 d. ago What to know about FIFA's new peace prize and who might receive it

There is a new worldwide peace prize on the scene and it was created by FIFA, not Nobel

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9 d. ago Football Daily | Infantino, Trump and giving peace a chance: Fifa

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!When María Corina Machado won this year’s Nobel peace prize for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights”, Donald Trump took the news as Maga-nanimously as you might expect. Having tirelessly run a campaign of self-promotion to ensure he won it himself, the president of the USA USA USA immediately claimed the credit for the Venezuelan opposition leader’s triumph, listed his own self-proclaimed and often dubious achievements in the field of global peacemaking and attacked the credibility of the committee who made the decision not to award the medal, cash prize and diploma to him. While security concerns mean it remains to be seen if the newly crowned Nobel laureate will emerge from hiding to pick up her accolade in person at the Oslo ceremony in December, a certain obsequious Fifa president appears hell-bent on stealing her thunder anyway. Yup, Gianni Infantino has decided to award a peace prize of his own creation in front of ...

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9 d. ago We love football because of moments like Van de Ven’s goal, not the Fifa Peace Prize | Max Rushden

Gianni Infantino has a new idea, and like most of his ideas it’s not one many are going to like, except maybe Donald TrumpA perfectly friendly-looking American guy, sharp suit, early 50s is wandering around Miami. He tells me that in the last 10 years the city has turned into a “magnet for dreamers, doers and visionaries, a launchpad where ideas take flight, where connections spark movements, where legacies are born”.I nod sagely, pretending to know what that means before clicking the X in the top right of the YouTube tab. The man in question is in fact the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, encouraging me and other leaders of industry to pay lots of money to attend the America Business Forum. The website tells me “America Business Forum comes to the United States for the first time” – which begs the question where they’ve held it previously. I’m no CEO, I don’t keep a diary, but I’d have put America right up there as locations to hold a forum on American business. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Fifa create brand new Peace Prize award – with Infantino set to hand it to Donald Trump at World Cup 2026 draw

FIFA boss Gianni Infantino is set to award the organisation’s new “Peace Prize” - to US President Donald Trump. Zurich chiefs announced the establishment of the new award under the tag-line “Football Unites the World”. Fifa said the inaugural prize was be awarded at the finals draw for the 2026 World Cup in Washington DC next month....

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1 week ago FIFA announces new peace prize to be awarded at World Cup draw in Washington

FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington

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2 w. ago A single match cost me thousands of dollars at 2026’s World Cup of the 1% | Leander Schaerlaeckens

With ticket sales phases under way and prices reaching eye-watering levels, my experience raised a crucial question: who is this World Cup for?For months, people in my life had been asking me when and where to get World Cup tickets. In the absence of any actionable information from Fifa before the first round of the pre-sale opened up, they hoped, I guess, that I had inside knowledge.In truth, I only knew that Fifa would be using the universally despised dynamic pricing model, and that the bid book for the 2026 World Cup had promised an average group stage ticket price of $305. Mind you, that was seven and a half years ago and an awful lot of inflation has happened since then. In the bid, Category 4 tickets for the group stage – the cheapest seats available – were priced at $21. (As we would soon learn, the actual price would start at $60, and category 4 tickets are almost non-existent.) Continue reading...

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