On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley signed a letter of intent to strengthen the collaboration between the three organisations in support of their common goal to enhance children’s access …
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FIFA has finalised an agreement with MEDIAPRO for media rights in Spain to FIFA events taking place between 2019 and 2022, including the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019, this year’s biggest elite football competition and for which FIFA is producing an unprecedented amount of content. The deal also includes the …
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The best 16 eFootball teams from around the world are set to meet in London next month for the FIFA eClub World Cup 2019. Over 150 teams participated in the Online Qualification which took place in January and the 15 qualified teams will join the reigning Champion Brøndby IF, the …
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The Bureau of the FIFA Council on Tuesday, January 8 decided to appoint a normalisation committee for the Namibia Football Association (NFA) in accordance with art. 14 par. 1 a) and art. 8 par. 2 of the FIFA Statutes. This decision comes after the recent visit of a FIFA delegation …
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The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has condoled the death of former FIFA referee and FIFA referee’s instructor Alex Vaz, who passed away after a long battle with cancer. Mr. Vaz is survived by his two sons and two daughters. Condoling his death, AIFF general secretary Kushal Das said, “Mr. …
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On December 11/12 representatives of FIFA and the FIFA Connect team presented the digital platform to a range of selected Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Spanish-speaking Member Association (MA) representatives who will be using the new system to register their football stakeholders in the future. …
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FIFA has today published the key findings of a comprehensive audit of consolidated final audience data for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which was broadcast live in every territory around the world from June 14 to July 15 this year. A combined 3.572 billion viewers – more than half of …
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This week in Paris, FIFA is taking part in the Sporting Chance Forum 2018 to help drive progress towards a world of sport that fully respects human rights. During the two-day event at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, representatives of affected groups, governments, sports bodies, trade unions, sponsors, NGOs, broadcasters, …
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The 2018 edition of FIFA’s Intermediaries in International Transfers report is now available. The report offers a summary of the involvement of intermediaries in all international transfers completed in FIFA‘s International Transfer Matching System (ITMS) since January 1, 2013. For the first time, the report also includes data on intermediary …
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Football is an ever-changing game. With as many as 211 countries being under FIFA’s banner, the confluence of cultures has brought about different practices to the ‘beautiful game.’ With different practices, come new roles with regards to the development of football operations. One very significant role in football is that …
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