{"id":38404,"date":"2018-10-26T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-meets-fifa-president-infantino-ahead-of\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:56:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:56:56","slug":"kagame-meets-fifa-president-infantino-ahead-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-meets-fifa-president-infantino-ahead-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame meets FIFA President Infantino ahead of Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two-day FIFA Council Meeting kicks off on Friday at Kigali Convention Centre to end on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rwanda was chosen to host the 8th FIFA Council Meeting during the FIFA\u2019s first meeting of the year held in Bogota, Colombia in March this year.<\/p>\n

The meeting will bring together over 100 delegates from different confederations across the world to discuss issues concerning the development of football.<\/p>\n

Hours before the meeting kicks off, President Kagame has received Gianni Infantino, President of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), though Office of the President, Village Urugwiro what marked the discussions between the two.<\/p>\n

It was not the first time for President Kagame to meet the world football governing body President Infantino as the two have met more than once either in Rwanda or abroad. <\/p>\n

In July 2017, Kagame was received by Infantino and visited the World Football Museum, located in Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

This followed the visit conducted by Gianni Infantino to Rwanda in February 2017 when Kagame promised him that Rwanda was ready to host all football activities FIFA would request Rwanda.<\/p>\n

Infantino has praised President Kagame for his support to football as he sponsors different football competitions including the Council of East and Central African Football Associations (CECAFA) interclub competition dubbed \u2018CECAFA Kagame Cup\u2019.<\/p>\n

The FIFA Council Meeting will discuss plans to revamp the Club World Cup and introduce global nation\u2019s league according to reports.<\/p>\n

The annual Club World Cup, which features seven teams would be expanded to 24 teams and moved to once in every, four years, according to proposals.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has met FIFA President, Gianni Infantino who is in Rwanda to participate in the 8th FIFA Council Meeting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38404"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38404"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}