https://africanupdates.com/fr/categories/fitness/Recent content in Fitness on African UpdatesHugofrMon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://africanupdates.com/fr/posts/burundi-becomes-100th-country-to-implement-fifas-football-for-schools-programme/Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://africanupdates.com/fr/posts/burundi-becomes-100th-country-to-implement-fifas-football-for-schools-programme/<p>Burundi has become the 100th country to implement FIFA’s Football for schools programme in a ceremony held in a celebratory atmosphere at the Urunani Stadium in Buganda, outside Bujumbura, and attended by FIFA President Gianni Infantino. The ceremony took place in the presence of the Burundi Minister of East African Community Affairs, Youth, Sports and Culture, Gervais Abayeho, and the President of the Football Federation of Burundi, Alexandre Muyenge.</p> <p>“Thanks to this wonderful Football for Schools project, FIFA and Burundi are uniting the world. We’re uniting the world with a football project, with an education project, with a project that gives chances and opportunities to the youth, to the boys and girls of this wonderful country, Burundi,” the FIFA President told the crowd.</p>