Gianni Infantino: 2018 World Cup the best ever

FIFA President Gianni Infantino proclaimed that Russia 2018 was "the best World Cup ever".

Visitors and viewers from around the world have widely considered the finale a great success.

The organizers were commended for the efficient conduct of the tournament in the 11 host cities, while there were few recorded incidents where travel fans were victims of racial or homophobic harassment that we initially feared.

With football itself heavily engaged throughout the tournament, Infantino has not hesitated to describe 2018 as the best year of the World Cup.

"A few years ago, I said it would be the World Cup, I can say it with a new conviction: it's the best World Cup ever organized," he said. said at a press conference in Moscow

"We had 98% of spectators, more than a million fans from abroad, more than three billion viewers on television. In FIFA's digital channels, content has been viewed more than 11 billion times, seven million viewers have participated in festivals, a great success with VAR and anti-doping has delivered unprecedented tests.

"We acted against discrimination with a new way of working with FARE and others." But there is the football side, and we had only one match that ended 0-0, and we had good matches The level of excellence in the infrastructure of the stadiums, airports, hotels, transportation, security, level of operational excellence has been really, really unprecedented, and it 's not just me. In saying that, it is others who have participated in several World Cups and championships. And a big party, an extremely friendly atmosphere, from beginning to end. "

A notable aspect of this tournament was the use of VAR at a World Cup for the first time, which Infantino considers a resounding success Luka Modric Mario Mandzukic Croatia 2018 World Cup "perform: prop =" uuid: 16o4nekfn2ort18udzeqrv31pd; width: 1920; height: 1080 "src =" https://images.performgroup.com/di/library/GOAL/8c/8b/luka-modric-mario-mandzukic-croatia -world-cup-2018_jxkq3uqij6x914r35yhyd2sm7.jpg "style =" width: 100%; "/>

Indeed, the former Secretary General of UEFA believes that the days of goals marked by a position of Offside or red cards for violent driving could both come to a "The results are extremely clear and extremely positive," he said. "More than 440 checks were made up here, 19 exams were done in the 62 matches, and 16 decisions were overridden by a wrong decision – good decision, so when you check the vocabulary and the word" progress " , progress means improving things over the past.It is a progress, it's better than the past. "

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" VAR cleans football, helping the referees to make the right decisions in a very difficult job: 95% of the checks we made were already correct, and thanks to VAR, we increased That's not 100%, but it's 99.32%, which is better than 95%.

"The goal of offside is over in football, at least in football with VAR.Either you are or you are not offside. And that's it. How many times have you written in the past whether it was offside or not? It's over.

"Look at how many red cards there were violent driving in the last World Cups , in this World Cup, up to here, zero, why not just for VAR, but everyone knows if you do it [elbow] face, someone will see it and then you will be kicked out.It is hard to think of the World Cup without VAR.We will see what we can improve in the future. "