The International governing body of football, FIFA has launched its plan to set up football academies around the world including Rwanda.

Arsene Wenger, FIFA’s chief of global football development said soccer’s governing body will set up an academy in every country around the world to groom up young talents.

“We will establish an academy in every country as we have analyzed that there is a better way of giving chance to everybody around the world which can help to give more chance to the young talented boys and girls,” Arsene Wenger said at the 73^rd FIFA Congress held in Kigali.

A total of $200 million will be spent by FIFA under the forward program to ensure that young talents across the globe are given chance to promote their talents. Rwanda's Football for Schools (F4S) programme (FIFA's) reserves stand at ($4Bn). In return, Rwanda targets to earn $800M in sports tourism by next year.

The project of establishing at least one football academy in every country is set to fully implement at least by 2026.

Meanwhile, Rwanda Football Association (FERWAFA) has become the 50^th member association to implement FIFA’s hugely successful Football for schools (F4S program) following a launch event in Kigali.

According to FIFA’s officials, the programme has the ambition to teach life skills to children such as accepting failure and adapting to new challenges.

“The program aims to make our children- 700 million school children around the world – the best citizens and better agencies for change,” he said.  In Rwanda we already trained 27 coach educators meaning that the program is ready to be rolled out in 4,000 schools and very soon 20,000 footballs will be dispatched to this country to start getting the ball rolling,” FIFA Secretary General Fatouma Samora said reflecting on the impact of the programme across the world.