FIFA is the acronym corresponding to Fédération Internationale de Football Association : in our language, International Federation of Football Association . It is the most important body in world football, as it brings together all the national federations of this sport .
FIFA , whose headquarters are in the Swiss city of Zurich , brings together more than two hundred associations. In fact, it has more member countries than the United Nations ( UN ).
This organism develops multiple functions. It is responsible for the definition and changes to the soccer regulations and organizes, among other events, the Soccer World Cup , which takes place every four years and is considered one of the most important sporting events on the planet.
Until November 2017, the president of FIFA was the Swiss Gianni Infantino , successor to the Cameroonian Issa Hayatou , who led the entity provisionally after the corruption scandal that ended with the suspension of Sepp Blatter .
One of the curiosities about FIFA that people outside the sport do not know is that it has its own anthem , which it adopted in 1994 and presented in the Soccer World Cup and the UEFA Champions League . It was composed by Franz Lambert , a German musician, and its most obvious characteristic is that it does not have lyrics, something that is very suitable to avoid problems in its reproduction in different countries.
The anthem is played before the start of any international match, and this includes friendlies, world cups and the Under 20 World Cup , as well as the finals of certain events such as Fair Play Day and national tournaments. In 2004, the first hundred years of FIFA were celebrated, and then the Japanese composer Gota Yashiki made several arrangements to provide a special version of the work.
In addition to the anthem, FIFA has its own website and, since 2009, an official magazine . To be more precise, this publication has adopted different names and forms since its inception: the first, FIFA World was a monthly magazine and had thirty-two issues until October 2013; It then became The FIFA Weekly , with a weekly circulation, which lasted until December 2015 and reached one hundred and thirteen issues; Since February 2016, they finally started publishing FIFA 1904 every month.
It should be noted that FIFA is also called a series of video games created by EA Sports , a brand of the Electronic Arts company. This saga was born in 1993 and became the first to have an official license granted by FIFA itself.
Throughout its history , video games in the FIFA series have been programmed for various consoles, such as SNES (also known as Super Nintendo or, its original name in Japan, Super Famicom ), Sega Mega Drive , Sega Master System , PlayStation and Xbox , among many others, in addition to having versions for PC . Among the players who starred on the covers of the games, the Argentine Lionel Messi , the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo , the Englishman Wayne Rooney and the Brazilian Ronaldinho appear.
The FIFA series video games have been on the market for many years but that has not affected their success ; As with the sport they represent, it has managed to maintain its popularity and continues to break sales records each season. Thanks to technological advances in the fields of motion capture and the application of physics principles in programming, these titles very faithfully reflect the phenomena that can be seen on a real soccer field, and that is why They attract so many fans.