By By Brian Homewood
ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA suffered another blow to its prestige on Monday when the Nobel Peace Center announced it was ending its cooperation with soccer's scandal-plagued governing body.
The Oslo-based center had been behind the Handshake for Peace initiative which had been enthusiastically promoted by FIFA President Sepp Blatter over the past three years.
FIFA had promoted pre-match handshakes between team captains and officials as the Handshake for Peace and had been hoping to introduce it at the end of games as well.
The announcement came three days after Interpol suspended a 20 million euro ($22 million) arrangement with FIFA on fighting match-fixing.