75ᵗ688国际足联大会|国际足联主席致辞

FIFA President’s Address Centro de Convenciones de CONMEBOL,Asunción, ParaguayThursday, 15 May 2025 FIFA President’s Address 1: Welcome Yes, some beautiful images to put us in the right mood. Let’s start with the (FIFA) Congress agenda item1. Welcome,la bienvenida.We are in Paraguay, South America, so I’m going to try to speak Spanish forthis first agenda item. [Translation]I’d like to welcome everyone to the beautiful city of Asunción and to this wonderfulcountry, Paraguay. Today, dear Alejandro, dear Robert, Asunción is not just the capital of Paraguay, butrather it has become the capital of the football world,of course, but we all know that it’s true thatfootball is the most important thing in the world. Therefore, Asunción is the capital of the world today,because it is bringing the whole world together, and this first FIFA Congressin Paraguay is cause forcelebration. We are celebrating in several respects. We are celebrating Paraguay’s 100th anniversary as a FIFAmember, as the Paraguayan Football Association joined FIFA in 1925,on 24 May, so 100 years ago.Many congratulations! Another reason for celebration is the fact that, for the first time, we haveassembled FIFA’s three flagship trophies–the (FIFA) World Cup, the (FIFA) Women’s World Cup and the(FIFA) Club World Cup–inthe same city for a (FIFA) Congress. Speaking of firsts, Paraguay took part in the first FIFA World Cup ever, football’s first(FIFA)World Cupever, in Uruguay in 1930. And Paraguay is going to(co-)host the (FIFA) World Cup for the first time in2030,an edition that will celebrate the centenary of the (FIFA) World Cup, and, as we’ve seen over thepast few days at this Congress, we’re going to have a brilliant time here in Paraguay in 2030.In 2030,alongside Uruguay and Argentina, of course.* Before then, we’ve got the (FIFA) Club World Cup, which kicks off in a month’s time, we’ll be talking aboutit.(Club)Olimpia won’t be there, nor will(Club)Cerro(Porteño), there’ll be no Paraguayan teamsinvolved, but there will besome Paraguayan players, there are two atthe 32 participating clubs for nowand more could join them before the tournament starts, but we’ll come to that later on. In short, in this agenda item, I want to tellParaguay as a country, President Santiago Peña, andeveryone just how much we thank them for having opened their hearts up to us to bring the worldtogether here in Asunción. Everyone’s happy, we feel very much at home. Of course, this isn’t the firsttimeI’ve visited Asunción, and each time it feels like I’m at home. Speaking of Paraguay and thankingParaguay as a country, I want to show you a video of this beautiful country. Please, take it away. *Note:Morocco, Portugal and Spain are the hosts of the FIFA World Cup 2030™, with the tournamentfeaturing three centenary celebration matches in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (one in each country). 2: Main address Yes, thank you very much. Football unites the world indeed. Dear Vice-Presidents, members of the(FIFA) Council, delegates, Presidents, General Secretaries,Vice-Presidents, legends of the game, guests,members of the media, everyone here present, football does indeed unite the world–this is not justour motto, this is a reality. And I have to say thatafter the last few days, as well as spending time with some of the world leaders,with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of theKingdom of Saudi Arabia, His Highness the Emir of Qatar, the PresidentSantiago Peña of theRepublicof Paraguay, I think I can really say here, also on behalf of the entire football family, that we all want tounite, we all want to bring everyone together, we want peace, and this has to be a call from all of us forpeace in the world toput aside all the conflicts and to unite, and football can definitely play a role inthat. So, let’s all unite the world in peace and through football. One topic I would like to mentionstraight at the outset concerns actually agenda item 10, and the itemrequested by the Palestine Football Association. Let me, at this stage in my address, assure you that theworkhas obviously started and is moving ahead. Let me assure you, also, that progress is being madeand let me assure you that we have–as it has to be–full and entire confidencein our independentbodies to conclude their work. Let me mention as well, what I don’t want to speak about in my address–not because I don’t want tospeak about it, but because these topics will bedealt with later on by people who are much morecompetent than me to speak about them. So, I will not speak about women’s football; Jill Ellis will dothat, and you will see that we are doing a lot in women’s football. I will not speak about youth football,about development, because Arsène Wenger will speak about it. And, also, there, of course, we aredoinga lot. I will not speak about refereeing, because Pierluigi Collina will speak about refereeing. Andthere, as well, we are doing a lot. And I