FIFA's Infantino urges unity, calls for FAs to push WHO advice

  • 📰 ChannelNewsAsia
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 30 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 15%
  • Publisher: 66%

Singapore Headlines News

Singapore Latest News,Singapore Headlines

FIFA is urging all football associations to publicise the World Health Organization's preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus, ...

MANCHESTER, England: FIFA is urging all football associations to publicise the World Health Organization's preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus, Gianni Infantino, president of world soccer's governing body, said in a letter to its members on Monday.

In the letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, Infantino urged football associations and others in the game to follow suit. "I highly recommend you to also at your level use the power of football to send out and spread these key messages."The FIFA president said the game had a responsibility to keep those involved in football as healthy as possible.

Most football leagues in Europe and many around the world have suspended play due to the spread of the virus and European governing body UEFA are meeting on Tuesday to discuss a possible postponement of Euro 2020.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 6. in SG

Singapore Latest News, Singapore Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

FIFA studying coronavirus impact on schedules, player contractsWorld soccer governing body FIFA said on Monday that it was looking into the potential impact postponed fixtures would have on player contracts ...
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »

Coronavirus: Italy warns of 'riskiest weeks', urges EU unityROME (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned on Monday (March 16) that his country was entering 'the riskiest weeks' and urged a coordinated European response to the coronavirus pandemic.. Read more at straitstimes.com. Europe and rest of the world could have spared this disaster had CCP shared accurate information just 20 days earlier!!!They could have even saved their own people’s lives! Had WHO acted professionally unbiasedly a month earlier we would not have ended up in today’s chaos!
Source: The Straits Times - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »

Workers’ Party urges Government to ‘take caution’ and ‘exercise judiciousness’ when calling for electionSINGAPORE: The Government should “take caution” and “exercise judiciousness” in calling for a General Election (GE), the Workers’ Party (WP) said ...
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »

WP urges Govt to ‘take caution and exercise judiciousness’ when calling next GESINGAPORE — The Workers’ Party (WP) has urged the Government to “take caution and exercise judiciousness” when calling Singapore’s next General Election (GE).
Source: TODAYonline - 🏆 1. / 99 Read more »

WP urges Government to take caution in calling for GE, says it will not speculate on dateSINGAPORE - The Workers' Party (WP) has urged the Government to 'take caution and exercise judiciousness' in calling for a general election, as it noted that it does not want to partake in speculation over when the GE will be called.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Source: The Straits Times - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »

FIFA studying coronavirus impact on schedules, player contractsWorld soccer governing body FIFA said on Monday that it was looking into the potential impact postponed fixtures would have on player contracts ...
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »