Summer 2026, the US, Mexico, and Canada will jointly host the FIFA World Cup. Viewership-wise, this is the biggest sporting event in the world. And in a bid to make sure the event goes on without a hitch, the organization has been pulling all the stops to ensure Donald Trump doesn’t jeopardize the competition in any way, including making up a peace prize award.
First thing’s first, FIFA is a global organization that exists for one purpose — to govern the rules and regulations of soccer. It’s sort of like the Olympics but for soccer. They neither have the capacity nor the expertise to monitor all the wars ongoing in the world, how they started, or even how they should end. They have actually only ever made pleas to fans to just keep politics out of the sport. The only time they made that exception was when they disqualified Russia from world football for invading Ukraine — and in subsequent years got criticized for not extending the same stance to Israel.
