FIFA has created digital identities for millions players and officials: Here’s how it will change global football
Alamy | FIFA aims to register every player worldwide over the age of 12.
FIFA has overseen a quiet digital revolution for the global game. At the heart of it is the FIFA Connect ID – with 32 million stakeholders now signed up.
FIFA aims to register every player worldwide over the age of 12 and say there are numerous benefits from cutting down on administration to challenging corruption.
Why it matters: A single player ID – effectively a player passport - will benefit the transfer system, help stop age doping and other corruption.
The perspective: A tech operator tells us this is an admirable initiative, but that incentives are currently misaligned but that creating commercial opportunities from the technology will see it fully succeed.
10 February 2023 - 2:34 PM
Amidst the headline grabbing stories that have defined Gianni Infantino’s FIFA presidency –controversial World Cups past and future, Club World Cup proposals, and dizzying financial growth – beneath the surface, remote from the newspaper back pages, a quiet revolution has taken place under his direction.
Over the past seven years the world governing body has been building a central identification syst
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