A major talking point from the visit was FIFA’s ongoing mission to level the playing field across different continents. Infantino pointed to a decade of positive change but stressed the importance of continued development.<\/p>\n
“I received a very, very warm welcome here in the Dominican Republic \u2013 beautiful, beautiful country\u2026on the occasion of a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union, to discuss projects, ideas,” Infantino said.<\/p>\n
“So, even more so, a reason to be proud to be here. And happy, as well, because it\u2019s important to engage, to have a dialogue, to express views and opinions \u2013 a lot been happening in the last few weeks and it\u2019s important that you hear, you listen and you\u2019re able to, also, express what your feelings are. So, I think overall, a positive, very, very happy with all the support I get here.<\/p>\n
“We want to grow football in every one of our 211 countries in the world. We need to narrow this gap between the big, big countries and all the others…we need to give a chance to all the others”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major talking point from the visit was FIFA’s ongoing mission to level the playing field across different…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[269294,85,46,105,6866],"class_list":["post-595424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-concacaf-caribbean-cup","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}