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Fifa has refused to condemn Donald Trump’s military strikes on Venezuela a month after football’s world governing body handed him a peace prize.
Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, has faced renewed criticism over the presentation of the controversial award last month after at least 80 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela over the weekend.
At an emergency session of the UN’s Security Council, secretary-general António Guterres said it is “deeply concerned that rules of international law have not been respected”. Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, and his wife were captured in the raids and taken to New York to face drug and weapons charges.
With Trump also threatening military action in Colombia, and Denmark issuing a warning to the US to stand down on its military threat to Greenland, critics say his antics make a mockery of the trophy Fifa presented him in Washington at the World Cup draw last month. Several prominent social media figures have called for a World Cup boycott as a result of Trump’s military action.
However, after three requests for comment by Telegraph Sportover the past 24 hours, Fifa sources have confirmed the governing body will not be responding at this time.
The “Fifa Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” award was scrambled three weeks after the Nobel Committee failed to nominate Trump in October. The Nobel Prize was instead presented to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
To soften the blow, Infantino handed Trump a new peace trophy along with a medal and a certificate in gushing scenes on December 5. “You can always count on my support,” Infantino told Trump. As the US president then put the medal around his neck, he described the award as “truly one of the great honours of my life”.