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The Football for Schools program continues across Saudi Arabia
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11 Arab referees in the Olympic Games
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Legal and training workshops at member associations
The 211 member associations receive financial and logistical support from FIFA through various programmes.
We take a look at some of the exceptional work done by FIFA’s Member Associations over recent weeks to promote, enhance and make football truly global.
The Football for Schools program continues
FIFA Football for Schools combines football with education and encourages children to learn lifelong through fun football exercises. The program seeks to achieve ambitious goals by supporting the education and development of 700 million children and making football accessible to girls and boys by strengthening education systems through the values of sport around the world. While the program continues strongly in many countries of the world, the most recent of which was Tanzania, the third phase was launched in Saudi Arabia, where it aims to discover and develop talents, and qualify male and female teachers responsible for sports activity, according to specific technical foundations.
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The launch of the Football for Schools program in Vietnam was also particularly significant as safeguarding and child protection were added to the program for the first time. Protecting those who play football from harassment, harm and abuse is a priority for FIFA, especially in any context involving children, which is in line with the Football for School programme.
The Olympics are on the horizon
The FIFA Referees Committee appointed a total of 98 referees (21 field officials, 42 assistant referees, 20 VAR referees, and 6 support referees) from 45 countries to officiate the matches of the men’s and women’s Olympic football tournaments Paris 2024.
The list included 11 referees from Arab countries, including the Emirati referees Adel Al Naqbi, the Mauritanian Dahan Beida, the Sudanese Mahmoud Ali Ismail, and the Moroccan Bushra Karboubi. The women’s tournament begins on July 25, 2024, and ends with a match to determine the gold medalist at the Princes Stadium in Paris on August 10, 2024, while the men’s tournament begins on July 24, 2024, and the gold medal match will take place on August 9, 2024. The same stadium in the French capital.
FIFA Integrity Summit in Singapore
FIFA and the Football Association of Singapore hosted the Integrity Summit on 4 and 5 April 2024 in collaboration with the Asian Football Confederation and in the presence of integrity officials from the 211 member associations and the six confederations. The summit aimed to inform integrity officials of the most prominent global trends prevailing in this field, and to share best applied practices, as well as to inform them of the new integrity guide prepared by FIFA and the educational method map related to integrity, and to review the decisions taken by both FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport regarding match-fixing. .
Celebrating the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, launched by the United Nations in 2013 and celebrated annually on April 6, focuses on the positive role of sport, especially football, in societies and in the lives of people around the world. This topic is of great importance to FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who has included football development and social responsibilities among his strategic goals for world football during the 2023-2027 cycle. Many football federations around the world celebrated this day in reference to the importance of sports in general and football in their societies.
Shedding light on the latest laws and regulations
The UAE Football Association held a legal workshop in cooperation with FIFA during the period from April 18 to 19, 2024, with the participation of a group of experts. The workshop dealt with the regulations and laws governing football at the international level, and shed light on the latest developments regarding football legislation in various fields, in addition to the experience of the FIFA clearing house and highlighting the list of player agents and player transfer processes.
Close cooperation for technical development
With the aim of developing women’s football in Algeria, the Women’s Football Committee of the Algerian Federation held the first technical development course for female coaches to supervise girls under 12 years old, in cooperation with the Norwegian Football Association, in a move that reflects how football truly unites the world.
The first edition of the course witnessed the participation of 24 female coaches, in addition to 120 girls, in theoretical and practical workshops, and the Algerian Football Federation aims to hold two additional editions during the coming period in order to spread women’s football in different parts of Algeria.