The FIFA invested 9.8 million dollars during the period 2016-2022 for the development of football in the Argentina through projects aimed at financing infrastructure, equipment, competitions and training, among other variables, it was officially reported.
The report FIFA Forward Published this Friday by the highest entity in world football, it points out that 2.1 million were made available for the lifting of the Video Operations Room (VOR) on the property of AFAin Ezeizafrom where video arbitration operates (VAR) of the parties of the Professional League.
The building has an area of 900 square meters distributed in seven operating rooms, a training auditorium and offices of the National Arbitration Departmentin charge of Federico Beligoy. The investment also included laying 2,800 kilometers of fiber optics to reach the 28 stadiums of the football teams. First division.
After infrastructure, the categories in which it bet the most FIFA in the Argentina were the following: operating costs (2 million dollars), equipment (1.7 million), administration and government (1.5 million), competitions (1.2 million), women’s football (0.9 million), training and courses (0. 2 million) and national teams (0.1 million).
The report of the FIFA reflects that the same amount of money invested in the Argentina was allocated to five other countries in South America: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. The other four had higher disbursements: Bolivia (11 million), Venezuela (10.4 million), Paraguay (10.3 million) and Ecuador (9.9 million).
At a global level, the FIFA Forward Program rotated approximately 2.8 billion dollars to their 211 member federations of the six confederations to finance more than 1600 projects specific football development in the period 2016-2022.
These investments were divided into eight categories: administration and government (448.8 million), infrastructure (415.2 million), National teams (357.5 million), competitions (186.1 million), equipment (181.1 million), Women’s Football (110.9 million), training (86.8 million) and operating expenses (135.6 million).
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“We committed to investing football revenues in improving the sport around the world, both women’s and men’s, and we have kept our promise. “Investing in football is our responsibility and our duty, and through the FIFA Forward Programme, we have a structural framework to do so in a viable and transparent manner,” declared the president. Gianni Infantinopromoter of the program.
“As a result, Although FIFA’s revenue has not even doubled since 2016, investments have increased sevenfold during the same period. This shows that the financing has been distributed appropriately, but also that the investment has been made and monitored to ensure that football develops sustainably in the long term,” highlighted the Swiss.
Source: Ambito
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