China News Service, April 25th, local time on the 24th, FIFA announced on the official website that it will immediately release the full operating funds for 2019 and 2020 for its 211 member associations. This means that the national football associations will receive 500,000 US dollars of funding, plus some previous FIFA funds that have not yet been released, this time the amount issued by FIFA will reach about 150 million US dollars.
Normally, national football associations will only receive FIFA ’s full operating funds if certain conditions are met. FIFA President Infantino said: "This new crown virus pandemic has brought the entire football society Has faced unprecedented challenges, and as the manager of football worldwide, FIFA has a responsibility to provide support to those in need, "
Infantino said: "First of all, we will immediately provide financial assistance to the member associations. After all, many national football associations have fallen into a financial crisis." Infantino said that the release of operating funds is to help the entire football society to alleviate the economic crisis. The first step.
FIFA said that for the national football associations, the operating funds issued this time should be used to alleviate the financial pressure caused by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, for example, to pay the salaries of employees or third parties. FIFA's ability to respond quickly and disburse funds this time will also benefit from FIFA's healthy and good financial situation in the past four years. (Finish)