FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday (22 January) he would like to visit Bangladesh in the next two months and hoped to fund the country's women's football.
He 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 FIFA would help develop soccer in the South Asian region.
"I want to visit Bangladesh in the next two months," Infantino told Professor 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 infrastructure for Bangladeshi women footballers.
Infantino said that FIFA would also help women's football in Saudi Arabia and added that the Bangladeshi diaspora in the kingdom would also benefit from FIFA's move.
Infantino regretted that he could not visit Bangladesh during the ongoing youth festival despite being invited.
Lamiya Morshed, the SDG coordinator of the Bangladesh government, and Tareq Ariful Islam, the Bangladesh envoy in Geneva, also attended the meeting.
