President Donald Trump was awarded the new FIFA peace prize on Friday at the 2026 World Cup draw — giving the spectacle to set matchups for the quadrennial soccer tournament even more of a Trumpian flair.

Trump, who has openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, had been heavily expected to receive the newly created FIFA prize. FIFA president Gianni Infantino, a close ally of Trump, has said he thought Trump should have won the Nobel for his efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza.

The award came a little more than a decade after the Department of Justice shocked the sports world and beyond with a sweeping corruption case against FIFA that played a part in Infantino coming to power, ending the reign of his predecessor, Sepp Blatter . The American soccer official who was indic

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