New Delhi, Dec. 10 -- Gianni Infantino's decision to award US President Donald Trump with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize has landed the football body chief in trouble, with a human rights group lodging a complaint to FIFA's ethics alleging a breach of neutrality rules.
The complaint was lodged by human rights group FairSquare, which called on the FIFA ethics committee to investigate Infantino for what it alleged amounted to "four clear breaches" of FIFA's neutrality rules.
"The award of a prize of this nature to a sitting political leader is in, and of itself, a clear breach of FIFA's duty of neutrality," the letter stated, as reported by The Athletic.
Specifically, FairSquare alleged breaches of clauses under Article 15 of FIFA's Code...
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