FIFA’s ethics committee has been requested to analyze president Gianni Infantino, claiming he broke the governing frame’s laws on political neutrality on the subject of United States President Donald Trump.

Infantino awarded Trump with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize on the 2026 World Cup attract Washington DC final week, and has additionally executed social media posts and interviews in strengthen of the 79-year-old.

Human rights marketing campaign team FairSquare has written a letter of grievance, which BBC Sport has observed, alleging Infantino has “dedicated 4 transparent breaches” of FIFA’s neutrality laws.

“The award of a prize of this nature to a sitting political chief is in and of itself a transparent breach of FIFA’s responsibility of neutrality,” the letter said.

“The Fifa president does now not have the authority to unilaterally dictate the organisation’s challenge, strategic sales strategy, insurance policies and values.”

BBC Sport has contacted soccer’s international governing frame for remark.

Infantino and Trump stood facet by means of facet all through the glittering rite on the Kennedy Centre for subsequent 12 months’s event, which takes position in the USA, Canada and Mexico from 11 June to 19 July.

As neatly as a big golden trophy, Trump gained a medal and certificates from Infantino, who mentioned, “This is what we wish from a pacesetter” and “you’ll all the time rely, Mr President, on my strengthen” all through a speech that adopted a video earlier than the presentation.

In October, the 55-year-old posted on Instagram pronouncing Trump “indubitably merits” the Nobel Peace Prize.

During an interview in November on the American Business Forum in Miami, Infantino additionally added: “We must all strengthen what [Trump] is doing [in the US] as a result of I believe it is taking a look beautiful just right.”

FairSquare additionally alleged a video put up by means of Infantino on Instagram in January – following his invite to Trump’s inauguration – “signifies strengthen for President Trump’s political time table”.

Nicholas McGeehan, FairSquare’s programme director, added: “This grievance is ready much more than Infantino’s strengthen for President Donald Trump’s political time table.

“More extensively, that is about how FIFA’s absurd governance construction has allowed Gianni Infantino to overtly flout the organisation’s laws and act in tactics which might be each bad and at once opposite to the pursuits of the sector’s hottest recreation.”

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