{"id":120534,"date":"2026-02-25T15:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-lauds-fifas-infrastructure-efforts"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:35:57","slug":"kagame-lauds-fifas-infrastructure-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/kagame-lauds-fifas-infrastructure-efforts","title":{"rendered":"Kagame lauds FIFA\u2019s infrastructure efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>President Paul Kagame has praised FIFA\u2019s efforts towards infrastructure development, saying the results under president Gianni Infantino \u201cspeak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments on Tuesday, February 24 while commenting on the FIFA Forward programme, a development initiative launched in 2016 by the football governing body aiming to provide comprehensive funding, infrastructure, and technical support to 211 member associations and six confederations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important for athletes to have access to higher qualify infrastructure because it supports elite training and competition,\u201d Kagame said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decade later, the results speak for themselves. under [Infantino&#8217;s] leadership, football has become more global than ever, and the investment and talent development is strong,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA Forward aims to foster global football growth by investing over $5 billion, building pitches, and supporting national team travel.<\/p>\n<p>The programme aims to increase investment, provide tailor-made support for local needs, and improve international competitiveness for all member associations.<\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame said that in Rwanda, the programme had helped to build an accommodation facility for the national football federation. FIFA Forward is also supporting the construction of pitches that meet FIFA standards. These are in Kigali, Rubavu, Rutsiro and Gicumbi.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2016, more than 2000 projects have been approved and benefited from FIFA Forward support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FIFA has always been a bridge between athletes, communities and cultures from all over the world, making football more inclusive,\u201d Kagame said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. President Paul Kagame has praised FIFA\u2019s efforts towards infrastructure development, saying the results under president Gianni Infantino \u201cspeak for themselves.\u201d He made the comments on Tuesday, February 24 while commenting on the FIFA Forward programme, a development initiative launched in 2016 by the football governing body aiming to provide comprehensive funding, infrastructure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":120533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,772],"tags":[294,116,1471,758],"class_list":["post-120534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","category-to-homepage","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-paul-kagame","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kagame lauds FIFA\u2019s infrastructure efforts - 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