FIFA
- Fédération Internationale de Football Association: the international governing body of association football
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Word Origin
from French
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Examples from the Web for fifa
Contemporary Examples
For all its flagrant indiscretions, though, FIFA has never run afoul of the law.
If only he had worked for FIFA, he might have a Picasso by now.
This year we got lucky and the FIFA World Cup made our summer sing.
In all of this lies the chance, also, for FIFA to redeem itself.
I mean, for all I know Belgians are the Tintin and Snowy of FIFA.
Word Origin and History for fifa
FIFA
1915, acronym from Fédération Internationale de Football Association, founded 1904 in Paris.
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