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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association [a] (lit. ' International Federation of Association Football '), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA [b] (/ ˈ f iː f ə / FEE-fə), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.
The sport's full name association football has never been widely used, although in Britain some clubs in rugby football strongholds adopted the suffix Association Football Club (A.F.C.) to avoid confusion with the dominant sport in their area, and FIFA, the world governing body for the sport, is a French-language acronym of "Fédération ...
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FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph [1]) to each of its member and non-member countries.These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA) as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions.
Namely, the name of the stadium. “Impressive Kansas City Stadium will stage a total of six matches from the biggest-ever World Cup, including one quarter-final,” FIFA wrote on its website.
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