FIFA chief likely to visit Bangladesh by March to support women's football 

FIFA President Gianni Infantino yesterday said he would like to visit Bangladesh in next two months and hoped to fund the country's women's football.

The FIFA chief made the comments when he called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in the Swiss city of Davos.

Infantino praised Yunus's ideas in making sports carbon neutral and said the FIFA would help develop football in the South Asian region.

'I want to visit Bangladesh in next two months," Infantino told Prof Yunus.

He added that FIFA would like to fund women's football in Bangladesh after the Chief Adviser sought his support to build facilities such as dormitories and other infrastructures for Bangladeshi women footballers.

Infantino said FIFA would also help women's football in Saudi Arabia and added that the Bangladeshi diaspora in the kingdom will also benefit from the FIFA move.

Infantino regretted that he could not visit Bangladesh during the ongoing youth festival though he was invited.

Lamiya Morshed, the SDG coordinator of the Bangladesh government, and Tareq Ariful Islam, the Bangladesh envoy in Geneva, also attended the meeting.