Will President Donald Trump finally win a global peace prize?
International soccer's governing body will announce the recipient of its first ever FIFA Peace Prize at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on Dec. 5. The award will be given during the widely-televised reveal of the groupings of nations for the first phase of competition in the 2026 World Cup soccer championship that is to be played in more than a dozen U.S., Mexican and Canadian cities next summer.
FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association and is based in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the governing body over all national and confederations soccer associations, including the United States Soccer Federation that oversees the American men's and women's national teams.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced the new peace prize on Nov. 5 at the America Business Forum in Miami. Infantino said the inspiration for the award was the motto that the planet's most popular sport "unites the world."
"But when we see what is happening in our world today, which is a very divided world, I think, and we think in FIFA that we need to find more occasions to bring people together," Infantino said. "Because only if people come together and they speak to each other, they can understand each other."
