FIFA Launches " FIFA+" Platform for Football Fans

Zurich, April 12 (QNA) - FIFA announced the launch of FIFA+, a world-class digital platform created to connect football fans across the globe more deeply with the game they love, for free. Launching today, FIFA+ will provide access to live football matches from every corner of the world, interactive games, news, tournament information, ground-breaking, unrivalled video content delivering truly global storytelling around the men’s and women’s game and much more. FIFA is the first sports federation ever to offer such an extensive streaming and content experience to its fans. "FIFA+ represents the next step in our vision to make football truly global and inclusive, and it underpins FIFAs core mission of expanding and developing football globally," said FIFA President Gianni Infantino. "This project represents a cultural shift in the way different types of football fans want to connect with and explore the global game and has been a fundamental part of my Vision 2020-2023. It will accelerate the democratization of football and we are delighted to share it with fans." By the end of 2022, FIFA+ will be streaming the equivalent of 40,000 live games per year from 100 Member Associations across all six confederations, including 11,000 women’s matches. FIFA+ offers live coverage from Europe’s topflight leagues to previously unserved competitions from around the world in men’s, women’s, and youth football. From launch, 1,400 matches will be live streamed monthly on FIFA+, rising rapidly. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, FIFA+ will be home to every FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup match ever recorded on camera, totaling more than 2,000 hours of archive content. For the first time ever, this entire archive will be available to fans. Fans will have the ability to watch full-match replays, highlights, goals, and magical moments all in one place. The FIFA+ Archive will launch with more than 2,500 videos dating back to the 1950s, with many more to come throughout the year. FIFA+ will also provide unrivalled content delivering global storytelling around the men’s and women’s game. It will feature full-length documentaries, docuseries, talk shows and shorts - localized into 11 languages, telling stories from local grassroots to national teams and footballing heroes past and present from more than 40 countries. The content on the FIFA+ platform will continue to grow and evolve in 2022, providing fresh, globally relevant as well as localized content across the year. The FIFA+ platform will also provide original and distinctive content that tells the most wonderful international stories for both men’s and women’s football, and will show for the first-time long documentaries, tapes, series, talk shows and short films - translated into 11 languages - that tell stories from local grassroots to major international teams in addition to the stories of past and current heroes of the game from more than 40 countries. The FIFA indicated that the FIFA+ platform will continue to grow and develop during 2022, and will provide new, global, and translated content throughout the year. (QNA)