FIFA President Gianni Infantino has congratulated President Walter Nyamilandu Manda on game’s progress in Malawi.
Infantino met Nyamilandu at FIFA’s Paris bureau on Wednesday and discussed the highly encouraging development of youth and women’s football in the African country.
Aided by FIFA Forward funds, the renovations to the FAM technical centre in Blantyre have given national teams improved facilities in which to prepare.
The victory of the women’s national team in the COSAFA Women’s Championship last weekend – Malawi’s first such title – follows on the back of their runners-up finish two years earlier and shows how ‘the Scorchers’ in particular have benefitted.
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Many of that team are in their ‘teens, and youth development is also a particular focus of the FAM, which has ploughed Forward funding into grassroots football. The academy in Mzuzu is currently undergoing phased improvements, while Malawi is one of 100 member associations to have launched the FIFA Football for Schools project aimed at giving children skills for life as well as football.
“I must congratulate my friend Walter on the fantastic work he and his team are doing to develop football in Malawi,” said the FIFA President. “From a solid financial platform, they have made great use of FIFA Forward funds to complete a number of projects, and already have more in the pipeline. They are giving every talent at every level the opportunity to flourish, and their efforts to boost women’s football, in particular, are really pleasing and very clearly bearing fruit.”
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