FIFA is preparing to move more than 100 jobs, including its legal department, from its central offices in Zurich to Miamione of the headquarters of the 2026 North American World Cupa source with knowledge of the decision told AFP on Tuesday.
World football’s governing body had already displaced Paris part of the large department that serves member associations and recently opened offices in Miami to support the organization of the next World Cup, which will be held in United States, Canada and Mexico.
These offices will now have a more important role with the permanent arrival of staff who will work in four different departments.
A source with knowledge of the move told AFP that the legal department, as well as the risk and advisory department, would be moved to Miami, together with judicial bodies of the organization.
In addition to the upcoming World Cup, the source noted that this city in the state of Florida is considered a strategic location due to its proximity to the 41 member associations of the region. Concacaf (North, Central America and the Caribbean) and its advantageous connections with South America.
Miami It has also raised its profile as a football city since the famous signing of Lionel Messi for Inter MLS, co-owned franchise David Beckham.
The staff of the FIFA was informed of the move in an email distributed Tuesday.
A spokesperson for the FIFA confirmed the transfer of personnel to Miami without specifying the number of displaced positions.
“FIFA is a global governing body and some departments have been informed of a planned move to a new permanent office in Miami”the spokesperson told AFP.
“This is in line with the global vision of an organization that has 211 member associations. Our new offices in Miami and Singapore They join our office Paris and to regional development offices around the world. The FIFA headquarters remains in Zurich,” the spokesperson stressed.
The organization’s headquarters, located in the hills above Zurich, is known as “The Home of FIFA” and has been its base since 2007. FIFA was founded in Paris in 1904 and moved to Zurich in 1932.
FIFA and Russian footballers
The UEFA decided this Tuesday to reintegrate Russian football teams under 17 years of age, men and women, into its competitions, maintaining the exclusion of older teams, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Children should not be punished for acts for which adults are solely responsible.”indicates in a statement the European body, which had suspended all Russian teams, on February 28, 2022, in agreement with FIFA.
For the executive committee of the UEFA, “It is particularly regrettable due to the persistence of the conflict that a generation of minor players is deprived of their right to compete in international football competitions”.
The government of the organization has therefore entrusted its administration “to propose a technical solution” allowing the immediate reintegration of Russian teams under 17 years old, “even when the draws have already taken place.”
Their matches must, however, be played “without the Russian flag, anthem and official kits, “and outside Russian territory,” specifies the UEFA.
The European body also reiterates “its condemnation of the illegal war led by Russia, and confirms that the suspension of all other Russian teams – clubs and national teams – will remain in force until the end of the conflict in Ukraine.”
At the same meeting, which examined various issues, the UEFA chose the National Stadium in Warsaw to host its next European Super Cup, on August 14, 2024.
On the other hand, the court appointed the Albanian Armand Duka to become one of its vice presidents instead of the former patron of the Spanish football federation, Luis Rubialespushed to resign on September 10 after having kissed the Spanish forward on the lips Jennifer Hermoso.
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