FIFA President visits Qatar 2022 World Cup facility hosting Afghan evacuees

Doha: FIFA President Gianni Infantino emphasised the important role football can play at such times, while meeting evacuees from Afghanistan being housed at the Park View Villas complex in Doha yesterday.

The FIFA President joined Assistant Foreign Minister and spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar H E Lolwah-Al Khater, and Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, Hassan Al-Thawadi, in visiting the facility, said a FIFA statement. “First of all, I would like to thank the Qatar people, the Qatar government and His Highness the Amir for the incredible efforts that are made by this country to welcome so many people from Afghanistan as they live through difficult moments of their lives but are able to come here as a safe haven,” the FIFA President said to assembled media.