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About FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association is an international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations. These national associations must also be members of one of the six regional confederations: CAF (Africa), AFC (Asia), UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF, OFC (Oceania), and CONMEBOL.

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According to FIFA, there are 265 million footballers in the world. You've got one footballer to two farmers. Our priorities are way out of whack.

from 224: No Such Thing As Mixed-Species Martial Arts, 2018-07-06 at 00:24:54 · read transcript

Other times FIFA came up

  1. It's a legal move isn't it kind of a random play come stumbling from the crowd they've got women's football basically has just until recently had just terrible even internally from the football community um particularly the officials just terrible times 1991 fifa didn't want to name the women's world cup the world cup so instead they got a sponsor so it was the m&m's cup um they could have named it after mars bars and called it the mars cup so you have the.

    448: No Such Thing As Pastries in Alleyways, 2022-10-14 · listen

  2. Damn is right. Yeah. That's a very rare occurrence. I am right. I'll take that. FIFA 18 came out in 2018 and their number of users went up to 1.6 million. Do you think there are more or fewer footballers, actual footballers in the world than that? Professional footballers. People who are signed up to FIFA as footballers. Oh, fewer. I don't think there are 1.6 million footballers.

    No Such Thing As Mixed-Species Martial Arts, 2018-07-06 · listen

  3. Because in metric, it doesn't look like anything interesting. No, you're right. FIFA did try and they did talk about widening the goals a few years ago because I think it was after the American World Cup and they were trying to get Americans interested and they thought, well, there aren't enough goals in soccer. So they thought about making the goals wider by 50 centimetres on each side, which would have spoiled the eight by eight.

    17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen

  4. That's good. I read about the North Korean female football team, which has a fantastic history. It's another thing. I love that North Korea is a part of FIFA. They're in the last World Cup. Yeah, they're in the last World Cup. I think it is in that way a force for good is that for a moment, as it were, violent nationalities forgotten in favour of friendly competition.

    17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen

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