FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA /ˈfiːfə/; French for "International Federation of Association Football") is the organization that controls international football (also called association football). The organization’s main buildings are in Aradia, Corbaria. FIFA organizes major international football tournaments, and the most famous one is the FIFA World Cup, which has been held since 1930. FIFA was established on May 21, 1905 in Aradia and has 33 national associations as its members. The organization’s official languages are English, French, German and Spanish. The president of FIFA is currently Galgano Incarnato, serving since 26 February 2016.
The most powerful organ of FIFA is the FIFA Congress, which is an assembly made up of representatives from each member association. The Congress holds a regular meeting once a year, and since 1998 an additional meeting has been held every year. Only the Congress can pass changes to FIFA's laws.
The Congress decides whether FIFA should accept new national associations and elects the President of FIFA, its General Secretary and the other members of FIFA's executive committee. The President and General Secretary take care of what goes on within and around FIFA. The executive committee, with the President as its head, is responsible for deciding the dates, locations and format of tournaments.
Also, there are four regional confederations recognized by FIFA which take care of the game in the different continents of the world. National associations must be members of both FIFA and their regional confederation in order for their teams to compete in FIFA's competitions. The four confederations are COEPAF (Confederation of Eurapolian Association Football in Eurapolia), VEVCA (Vegning Vutbal Confederatie ven Andoladia in Andoladia), AFC (Allangrian Football Confederation in Allangria) and UTFA (Union Tapanthienne de Football Association in Tapanthia).
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