Moment mal! Ich dachte, Donald Trump hat dort für ewigen Frieden gesorgt und deswegen erst Freitag den FIFA Peace Prize gewonnen (inside.fifa.com/campaigns/fo... ).
Was fällt denen ein, sich nicht daran zu halten?

Bow ties and Botox.

Eine weitere Aufgabe für den frisch gekürten Fifa Friedenspreisträger hier schlichtend zu vermitteln …

Es ist (fast) noch alles möglich. Auch nach dem heutigen Spieltag …

It is a good opportunity to have a look at my recent journal articles that call for a rethink of #sportswashing with a bigger focus on the role of media and audiences in interpreting the political power of sports:
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...
thx @uomhums.bsky.social, @fettitude.bsky.social

9 years later not even the football people were willing to applaud him, when he wanted to entertain the audience.
The worst thing you can do as an entertainer is not to read the room. The second worst thing is to tell the audience: “I can’t hear you! … Louder! 👏🏼 …”

Dafür den Satz: „you can do what you want.“ zu Trumps Erheiterung untergebracht.

You bring on stage the Village People who apparently fell asleep during this ceremony and were woken up minutes before, missing their cue, having a tired and lackluster of a performance only to have Trump dance in the rafters.
All in all: Unprepared, unrehearsed, uninspiring.

You had former world class athletes who didn’t know how or what to answer on prepared questions.
A ridiculed Rio Ferdinand as a Fifa puppet and a co-host where you didn’t know why she was there again.
And after you had Wayne Gretzky learn a bunch of new countries …

You had an exuberant patriotic image film about a new Prize that is awarded by Fifa, which not only was obviously given to Trump to consolate him for not winning the Nobel Prize, but then present him with an ugly trophy even he wouldn’t put in his golden Oval Office.

You had Robbie Williams and Nicole Scherzinger performing a new hymn who rather wanted to be somewhere else, had no interaction with each other and performed that song poorly.
Heads of states reduced to candidates of a game of Jeopardy with Infantino getting zero reactions from the audience.

You had a comedian as a host who couldn’t tell jokes or interact with the audience.
You had a German super model who once has hosted that same show 20 years ago and wasn’t allowed to make references to.
You had an actor who just interviewed former players randomly with no apparent reason.

Unfortunately, I cannot understand Norwegian, but this Prize is tremendously hideous.

Schlecht sitzender malvenfarbener Anzug.

Ich habe irgendwie das Gefühl, dass Donald Trump diesen neuen Fifa Peace Prize bekommt. #letzter

Finally, Infantino will meet Mark Carney personally …

Wie gut, dass er morgen den Fifa Peace Prize bekommt :)

Heißen die Trainer von Augsburg und Mainz nicht seit Jahren gleich?

2/ Men's World Cups are very expensive for host governments, which spend billions, and very lucrative for FIFA, which makes billions. See the basic business model below (courtesy of @sdwolfe.bsky.social, Martin Müller and David Gogishvili).

The USA will pay for the party and suffer the hangover.