Never thought I'd see the day when red blooded conservative Americans were lining up to declare FIFA to be the real football.

I've seen some crazy things in this last decade, but this might be the most surprising.

Soccer is a "sport" for children. DJT probably should've sat this one out.

Watermelon Man said:

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HollywoodBQ said:

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Please show some sympathy to your soccer friends as they're going to be in a state of shock.

FIFA (the most corrupt sports governing body) has created a new peace prize award and the first recipient is our American Hero - Donald J Trump.

Oh my. Euro heads are going to explode.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cy5gw0wv5zqo

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How much does anybody want to bet that the last recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize is DJT as well?

How many other sports leagues have a peace prize?

How has FIFA gone 121 years without one?

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Thanks for the laugh TDS'ers and libs! You are, if nothing else, comically predictable.

At least they made up an award. Liberals do things like nominate 60 Minutes for an outstanding edit of an interview Emmy, give Obama a Nobel for getting elected, give Cuomo an Emmy for his Covid briefings, nominate celebrities for potus medals of freedom so they can run shoulders with the celebrity, give Soros a f'ing potus medal of freedom for buying their elections, etc.

You want embarrassment? Go find the nearest mirror so you can wipe the snot and mascara off your face.

"At least they made up an award" is certainly an argument. The criticism was that it was embarrassingly sycophantic. FIFA created a prize one month ago, announced it the day after Trump didn't get the Nobel, then gave it to him at an event they moved to the Kennedy Center (which Trump now controls), with a five-minute hype video and Infantino gushing "this is your peace prize." No selection committee, no criteria, no other candidates. This is the same organization the DOJ indicted 50+ people from across 20 countries for racketeering and $150 million in bribes. Even granting every item on your list, none of it addresses whether the FIFA ceremony was embarrassing. It's okay to not pivot to "other side did bad things too" and acknowledge that it does look pretty bad.

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I don't know how you didn't watch that and be thoroughly embarrassed by it. I'm really struggling to find the words because how North Korean the whole thing was. Create an award that never existed with a weird 5 minute long hype video followed by what can only be described as comically excessive aggrandizement. I mean if you're only emotional state is owning the libs I can see how you enjoyed it as if it was simply an algorithm. But good God they couldn't have laid it on more thick if they tried to gas up Trump's narcissism. I swear before the age of the internet nobody would have let that facile and vacuous ritual fly. You really should watch it and convince me that wasn't American Juche.

The full 11 minute presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/live/m1UEU3x4dhs?si=ZxwB6Qtva9ZsZnUp

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Damn you really spent a lot of time on that analysis

I'm sorry it upset you so

gigemtxag2025 said:

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"At least they made up an award" is certainly an argument. The criticism was that it was embarrassingly sycophantic. FIFA created a prize one month ago, announced it the day after Trump didn't get the Nobel, then gave it to him at an event they moved to the Kennedy Center (which Trump now controls), with a five-minute hype video and Infantino gushing "this is your peace prize." No selection committee, no criteria, no other candidates. This is the same organization the DOJ indicted 50+ people from across 20 countries for racketeering and $150 million in bribes. Even granting every item on your list, none of it addresses whether the FIFA ceremony was embarrassing. It's okay to not pivot to "other side did bad things too" and acknowledge that it does look pretty bad.

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The difference here is that we expect this from FIFA. It's known for blatant crap like this.

Quite a bit different than the Nobel Peace Prize organization awarding one of the most globally prestigious awards to a man simply because he's black.

Their lone criteria that year was skin color which subsequently made the award worthless. The funny thing is that some of the folks involved in that decision now regret it, at least, because they are self-aware enough to realize how racist and stupid it was.

Every world cup draw is filled with cringy ****

TxSquarebody said:

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If I wanted to watch 22 guys run around for 90 minutes and not score, I'd go to Banita Creek Hall on a Saturday.

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I know where that is

YouBet said:

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gigemtxag2025 said:

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"At least they made up an award" is certainly an argument. The criticism was that it was embarrassingly sycophantic. FIFA created a prize one month ago, announced it the day after Trump didn't get the Nobel, then gave it to him at an event they moved to the Kennedy Center (which Trump now controls), with a five-minute hype video and Infantino gushing "this is your peace prize." No selection committee, no criteria, no other candidates. This is the same organization the DOJ indicted 50+ people from across 20 countries for racketeering and $150 million in bribes. Even granting every item on your list, none of it addresses whether the FIFA ceremony was embarrassing. It's okay to not pivot to "other side did bad things too" and acknowledge that it does look pretty bad.

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The difference here is that we expect this from FIFA. It's known for blatant crap like this.

Quite a bit different than the Nobel Peace Prize organization awarding one of the most globally prestigious awards to a man simply because he's black.

Their lone criteria that year was skin color which subsequently made the award worthless. The funny thing is that some of the folks involved in that decision now regret it, at least, because they are self-aware enough to realize how racist and stupid it was.

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Yeah, but "we expect this from FIFA" glosses over the fact that Trump enthusiastically participated. He moved the draw to the Kennedy Center, accepted the award, and put the medal around his neck while calling it "one of the great honors of my life."

Like him or dislike him, it is a fact that Obama was at least openly self-critical about receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. The morning he found out, he told reporters "I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize." In his acceptance speech he even stated he feels his accomplishments are slight when compared to other recipients. We could probably speculate all day whether this is just performative humility, but at least there was some sort of effort.

Also, just a correction, although irrelevant to the topic of this thread: the Nobel Committee's stated rationale was Obama's diplomatic outreach and nonproliferation efforts after the Bush years. Whether or not you believe there was some unstated reason for Obama's award, the fact remains that the Committee never said or implied race was a factor, not at the time, and not in any later expressed regrets. You could argue the award was thin or premature (many did, including Obama himself, like I've mentioned), but "lone criteria was skin color" is your characterization, not theirs. Lundestad's regret was that the aspirational bet didn't pay off since they had hoped the award would boost Obama's diplomacy and it didn't, but no one from the Committee has ever said or implied it was about race.

Sid Farkas said:

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agdoc2001 said:

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Is this the thread to post in if I'm middle aged and overweight but want to demonstrate how manly I am by informing others that I don't watch soccer?

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Soccer is an offense to sports. it's fundamentally dumb to make someone use only their feet to handle a ball. The point is inarguable.

And yes, I'm middle aged and just slightly overweight. And I watch soccer when it's in the olympics and world cup. it's kinda entertaining...like circus jugglers and plate spinners are entertaining.

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They should play the same music for soccer that they used to for plate spinners on the Ed Sullivan show!

Will give you Trump on that. Not surprising at all he would gladly accept it. He likes himself a lot.

Regarding Obama's prize, common sense says it absolutely was about race and I think it's delusional to think otherwise considering the context and climate at the time. To change their criteria that one time to be forward looking and not based on any actual accomplishment that just so happens to align with the first black American POTUS?

Sure, sure.

I'm American, so of course I prefer football because I grew up with it. But soccer is really entertaining when played at the highest level with national pride mixed in.

However, from a purely objective viewpoint, with tons of action, speed, strength, athleticism...Australian Rules football is the best sport I've seen in the genre.

There are quite a few TDS awards that could be given away to some posters on this thread

Trajan88 said:

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You just know that blue/purple/pink-haired clown Megan Rapinoe is going to spontaneously combust upon hearing this.

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I would actually tune in to watch that

Did she die after she retired? I haven't seen her crying in the news lately. Maybe her two minutes are up.

On a serious note, related to soccer-politics, some fans are mad about this:

I'll add a fact to this point:

Worldwide demand for WC tickets is at an unprecedented level.

The cost of purchasing tickets in the secondary market is going to be astronomical.

That's because the entire world wants to come here and experience the event in the NFL stadiums… https://t.co/3OSrTmnk55

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) December 6, 2025

Personally, I think it ticks off all the right folks. Good Trump/Noem.

Trajan88 said:

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You just know that blue/purple/pink-haired clown Megan Rapinoe is going to spontaneously combust upon hearing this.

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One can only hope.....