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FIFA (www.FIFA.com) President Gianni Infantino has stressed the importance of \u201cteam spirit\u201d to project African football to the top of the world in his address to the 43rd CAF Ordinary and Elective General Assembly that took place today in Rabat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know the values of football, but the most important value is team spirit. This is the team spirit that we have witnessed these days in Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n
Referring to the future of African football, the FIFA President said: \u201cI have already said it, and I say it again. We must stop saying that it is necessary to develop African football. It is about projecting it to the summit of world football.<\/p>\n
“The time for talking has stopped. We must move on, and we must move on as a team: as a CAF team and a FIFA team that also includes all the confederations and associations from all over the world. You are CAF. You are FIFA.\u201d<\/p>\n
In relation to Patrice Motsepe, who was today elected as the new CAF President, the FIFA President commented: \u201cI want to wish all the very best for the next four years, to the new leading team of CAF, of African football, and to Patrice Motsepe, to all those who have been involved, to Augustin, Ahmed, Jacques and everyone. I want to assure you that FIFA is not at your side. FIFA is together with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The full speech of FIFA President Gianni Infantino at today\u2019s 43rd CAF Ordinary and Elective General Assembly is available here<\/a>\u00a0(https:\/\/fifa.fans\/3qHD9JM).<\/p>\n Distributed by APO Group<\/a> on behalf of F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).<\/i> FIFA (www.FIFA.com) President Gianni Infantino has stressed the importance of \u201cteam spirit\u201d to project African football to the top of the world in his address to the 43rd CAF Ordinary and Elective General Assembly that took place today in Rabat. \u201cWe know the values of football, but the most important value is team spirit. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":65202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1618358414_719_418.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[258,256,4380,4696,281,4691,450,279,280,9109,257,7691,2450,38033,254,38034],"class_list":["post-65201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dr-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-central-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-drc-news","tag-fifa","tag-news","tag-praises","tag-president","tag-quotteam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spiritquot"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1618358414_719_418.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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