FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s fawning adoration of President Donald Trump, complete with seemingly creating an award just for him, is now the subject of an ethics complaint.

The five-count complaint, filed on Monday by the non-profit advocacy group FairSquare, argues Infantino’s cosy relationship with Trump violates Article 15 of FIFA’s Code of Ethics, which requires the governing body and its representatives “remain politically neutral.”

“In offering clear support for President Trump’s political agenda at home and abroad, Mr. Infantino has repeatedly breached his duty to remain politically neutral, and done so in a way that poses a clear threat to the integrity and reputation of football and of FIFA itself,” FairSquare said.

Most visibly, Infantino last week awarded Trump the organization’s first-ever FIFA Peace Prize ― an award, FairSquare notes, Infantino appears to have both created and awarded to Trump without input from the rest of FIFA.

The complaint cites two early December reports in The New York Times that the prize “was so hastily arranged” that FIFA board members and vice presidents only........

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