“I thought I came to a country which knows something about football but not really into football because of the other sports that are part of the local culture. But what I find out is that, it’s actually a country that is not only playing football, are not only passionate about football but it is actually living football. Living football is the new slogan of Fifa,” said Infantino during a press-conference at a city hotel in Dhaka in the afternoon. Infantino tells PM: #Fifa to continue support for promotion of Bangladesh's football https://t.co/8leDf92nq9 — DhakaTribune (@DhakaTribune) October 17, 2019“We will bring Fifa much closer with football in this part of the world because Bangladesh has 170m people living in this country and I don’t know how many millions abroad. It was the fourth occasion of a Fifa boss visiting Bangladesh after Joao Havelange (1980-81) and Sepp Blatter (2006 and 2012).

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 17, 2019 12:22 UTC