Pinnick Amaju with FIFA President, Infantino |
NFF President Amaju
Pinnick will fly to Zurich, Switzerland on Tuesday to attend the inaugural
meeting of the Organizing Committee for FIFA Competitions, taking place at the
Home of FIFA on Wednesday.
Nigerian Football’s
supremo was in January appointed a member of the second most important
committee in world football (after the FIFA Council), which also has the
Presidents of three Confederations (UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, Oceania
President David Chung and Asia boss Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa).
The Organizing
Committee for FIFA Competitions replaced the plethora of organizing committees
for FIFA’s competitions, viz FIFA World Cup, FIFA Women’s World Cup, FIFA
Confederations Cup, FIFA U20 World Cup, FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup, FIFA U17 World
Cup, FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup, FIFA Club World Cup, FIFA Futsal World Cup and
the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
At
its 66th Congress in Mexico City on 12th – 13th
May 2016, and in accordance with the revised FIFA Statutes that came into force
on 27th April 2016, the model of the standing committees was
reviewed, cutting the number from 26 to 9.
The new model has only the following
committees: Governance, Finance, Development, Member Associations, Referees,
Players’ Status, Football Stakeholders, Medical, Organising Committee for FIFA
Competitions.
The Organising Committee for FIFA
Competitions is headed by UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin and the tenure of
members is for 2017-2021.
In
line with the new FIFA reforms, each proposed member of any of the committees
was made to go through a comprehensive integrity check conducted by several
organisations of global relevance and stature.
Pinnick, who earlier served on the
Organizing Committee for the FIFA U20 World Cup, is vice president of WAFU B
and Member of the Executive Committee of Confederation of African Football.
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