Taking the peace The football we love is about Van de Ven magic not Infantino's bizarre next prize

A perfectly friendly-looking American guy, sharp suit, early 50s is wandering around Miami.

- Max Rushden

He tells me that in the past 10 years the city has turned into a "magnet for dreamers, doers and visionaries, a launchpad where ideas take flight, where connections spark movements, where legacies are born".

I nod sagely, pretending to know what that means before clicking the X in the top right of the YouTube tab. The man in question is in fact the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, encouraging me and other leaders of industry to pay lots of money to attend the America Business Forum. The website tells me “America Business Forum comes to the United States for the first time” - which begs the question where they've held it previously. I'm no chief executive, I don't keep a diary, but I'd have put America right up there as a location to hold a forum on American business.

Sadly this conference finished yesterday, so we are all too late - missed the chance to see the guy who set up WeWork tell us the wifi password, or see Rafa Nadal tell me how to grow my self-improvement podcast. The $10,000 early bird Diamond package “for those who lead change and want to be at the center of everything” was already sold out anyway. It's tiring enough being the centre of my own existence, let alone everything.

What in the Micky van de Ven does this have to do with sport anyway? Well, this was where the president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, announced his new big idea this week: the “Fifa Peace Prize - Football Unites the World”.