FIFA President underlines development of women football

On the occasion of World Women Football Day, Infantino attended a gathering of Iranian women footballers here on Thursday, and said when 'I took office FIFA it did not have a suitable situation and I was confident that one of the fields to be strengthened is women football'.

He added that FIFA strengthened women football and elected a woman as secretary general of the FIFA and decided to invest in this issue and started world cup for under 15 and 17 years old and now FIFA is paving the way to increase women world cup teams from 16 to 24 teams.

Deputy Head of Women Football Federation Leila Sofizadeh welcomed Gianni Infantino and said that development of women football is in order to create a healthy and happy society.

She said that football is so attractive in Iran and asked Infantino to have more support for women's football in the Islamic states.

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