FIFA president Gianni Infantino has defended his organization's controversial decision to award Donald Trump its inaugural Peace Prize.
The U.S. president was presented the award at the 2026 World Cup draw in December, just one month after FIFA announced the creation of the prize.
Though he conceded there had been a "strong reaction" to Trump winning the award, Infantino insisted the prize was deserved.
"Whatever we can do to help peace in the world, we should be doing it, and for this reason, for some time we were thinking about (whether) we should do something to reward people who do something," he said in an interview with Sky News.
The FIFA president, who has a close relationship with Trump, said that "objectively, he deserves it."
