The president of Norway’s soccer federation said Tuesday that the organization sent a letter to FIFA supporting a formal complaint against the global governing body about the Peace Prize awarded to President Donald Trump in December.
FIFA gave Trump its inaugural Peace Prize at the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., two months after its president, Gianni Infantino, joined Republicans in calling for Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Norway will kick off its World Cup campaign with a match against Iraq in Foxborough, Mass., on June 16.
Norwegian Football Federation president Lise Klaveness said at a press conference Tuesday that her federation sent a letter of support for a complaint filed in December by human rights group FairSquare.
The FairSquare complaint alleges that Infantino and FIFA leaders violated FIFA’s code of ethics—which requires political neutrality—by backing Trump and awarding him the peace prize, and requests an investigation into how the prize originated.
