FIFA - The Football Festival!


Hello Kids! Welcome back to KidsCast! This article will tell you about one of the most loved organizations in the world. We are sure that you must have seen the amazing and interesting final of the football. So, we will talk about the organization that conducted such a final. So let's start with our topic - FIFA.

About Football

Football is a team sport that involves, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal or putting the ball into a goalpost. We need to understand football because FIFA is the organization that governs football/soccer. Football is thought to date back as far as 2500 BC when the Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, and Romans played games involving a ball and feet. Modern football is said to originate from Great Britain. Walter Camp is the one who is credited with the making of the rules of present-day football.




What is FIFA?

FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association. It is the international body of governance of footballbeach football, and futsal. It was founded in 1904 in Paris, France to govern the international competition among the national football teams of BelgiumDenmarkFranceGermany, the NetherlandsSpainSweden, and Switzerland. It is Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It currently has 211 members (countries) associated with it in all. Its current president is Gianni Infantino.







Tournaments it organizes

  • FIFA World Cup
  • Men's Olympic Football Tournament (U-23)
  • FIFA U-20 World Cup
  • FIFA U-17 World Cup
  • FIFA World Series
  • FIFA Futsal World Cup
  • Men's Youth Olympic Futsal Tournament (U-20)
  • FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup



It conducts such tournaments for both women and men. FIFA men's World Cup, which just passed, is like a festival for all football fans. It is the most popular tournament in the entire world. People from the entire globe watch this cup. World-class teams compete with each other and entertain the fans. Here are the winners till now of the World Cup.





So, Kids, we have come to the end of this short and crisp article. Hope you have learned enough about FIFA. So kids, for some time, we wave off to you but we will be back with more amazing articles soon. Till then Happy Learning!

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