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MINUTES OF THE 63 RD FIFA CONGRESS, MAURITIUS 2013 29
death and that as an integrated part of the 11 steps,
they had created a medical emergency bag, containing a
defibrillator as well as the essential equipment necessary
for aiding the management of sudden cardiac arrests,
which would be sent to each member association in
the coming days.
He invited President Blatter along with Prof. Jiří Dvořák
to join him on the stage for the presentation of the
first medical emergency bag to the President of the
Mauritius Football Association.
FIFA’s Chief Medical Officer, Prof. Jiří Dvořák, explained
that Mauritius had been the first country to implement
the “FIFA 11 for Health” programme nationwide,
where more than 30,000 children had completed the
programme thanks to the excellent partnership between
the MFA, the government, the ministries of education,
health and sport, and FIFA. He thanked Mauritius for
setting the example and the benchmark for the rest of
the world to follow, as well as the players and coaches
who had volunteered their time and support to become
ambassadors for the programme.
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A video of the “FIFA 11 for Health” programme was
shown.
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Prof. Jiří Dvořák continued by reporting on the “FIFA
11 for Health” programme, which had started in 2009
and had been rolled out in 19 countries since then. He
explained that the success of implementation in Africa,
as the medical legacy of the 2010 World Cup, had
been followed by implementation of the programme
in other confederations, such as Oceania (Solomon
Islands, Tonga), AFC (Myanmar), CONMEBOL (Bolivia,
Colombia) and CONCACAF (Mexico).
In relation to implementation in Mexico, he highlighted
the positive response from the Mexican Football
Association and the government, who had decided
to sponsor the programme from the governmental
budget until 2015, covering costs of USD 20 million. He
also emphasised Mexico’s aim of integrating 1.8 million
children into the programme by 2015 and reported
that implementation of the programme was currently
getting under way in Brazil, in partnership with the
Brazilian Football Association and the Ministry of Sport.
Prof. Jiří Dvořák stated that the programme was in
need of a new structure given the increased number of
requests from member associations all over the world
for implementing it in their countries. He said that there
was strong evidence that the programme contributed
to the improvement of public health and therefore, on
behalf of F-MARC and the entire team involved in the
programme, he asked the FIFA Congress to support the
“FIFA 11 for Health” programme in its aim to reach as
many countries as needed and possible.
The Congress was asked to give a vote of principle on
the further expansion of “FIFA 11 for Health”, a global
health initiative for 2014-2019, with the following
result:
– 200 votes in favour
– 0 votes against
11.7 Communications
Mohamed Raouraoua, chairman of the FIFA Media
Committee, began by saying that in line with its reform
process, FIFA had decided to thoroughly intensify its
activities in the realm of communications to ensure the
world at large did not have a reduced view of FIFA’s
mission, objectives and activities. In its aim to promote
more direct communication with the world, especially
the fans of football, he said that FIFA would aim at
being more proactive in its relations with the media