Ulaanbaatar
President meets FIFA President
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. Yesterday, October 16, President Kh.Battulga received the President of FIFA Gianni Infantino. Expressing gratitude to Mr. Gianni Infantino for his arrival to Mongolia, President Kh.Battulga praised FIFA’s great support for developing professional football in Mongolia and football practice of Mongolian children.
President
Kh.Battulga also informed that a world standard football pitch was built alongside
numerous sports projects being implemented in connection with upcoming ‘Children
of Asia’ sports festival to be hosted by Ulaanbaatar in 2020, and talked over
about constructing a football stadium with closed roof. Underlining
an essential need of FIFA’s advice and experience in construction of the
stadium, the President put forward a request to Mr. Gianni Infantino to cooperate
and give support to Mongolian Football Federation on this matter.
At the meeting, the sides concurred
on the issue to make two of the existing football pitches closed by air dome and
financing the required expense by 50:50 percent. Practicing in team sports, in
particular a football is a great boost for teens to spend leisure time
effectively and to be disciplined; therefore, renovation works of football
pitches are ongoing everywhere regardless of urban and local areas. In this
regard, the president requested to render methodological support to train
coaches and cooperate with MFF.
