Visa becomes exclusive partner of the FIFA
The new agreement of global collaboration unites to the mark of payments leader in the world with the most popular sport until year 201411 of April of 2006 San Francisco/Madrid
International visa and the FIFA (Federation the International of Soccer Association) has announced the company/signature in an important agreement that turns to Visa in partner of the FIFA and it grants the world-wide rights to him of his diverse activities, including the World-wide Championship of Soccer and the World-wide Championship of Feminine Soccer. This collaboration unites the global mark of payments leader, Visa, with the sport king, soccer, in an innovating relation that will benefit anywhere in the world to the fans to this sport.
The Visa commitment as exclusive partner in the category of financial services begins in January of 2007 and finalizes in 2014. In its quality of one of the six partners of the FIFA, Visa will enjoy a greater level of association the Federation the International of Soccer that previous sponsoring of this category and will have access to a greater number of activities and opportunities, including assets of marketing, special competitions, events and programs of development. Visa and the FIFA will anywhere in the world work together in the creation of programs of exclusive payments for the activities and competitions of the Federation.
“Of a form in which only Visa can do it, we will work with our extensive network of 21,000 financial organizations anywhere in the world to transmit the enthusiasm of soccer to million card holders Visa�, has indicated the president and delegated adviser of Visa the International, Christopher Rodrigues. “This agreement of collaboration is going to allow to us to offer as much to our titular programs directed to its authentic passion by this game to local level as global. The agreement of collaboration with the FIFA is in the line of association with the best world-wide marks than it maintains Visa and it complements our strong positioning of global mark�.
Like world-wide leader in services of payment, with more than 24 million acceptance points, Visa is in a unique position anywhere in the world to extend the advantages of this collaboration to million holders of its cards and fans to soccer. This agreement of collaboration is added to other similar programs that Visa has subscribed with the Games OlÃmpicos and ParalÃmpicos, Disney or the World-wide Championship of Rugby. At the most explaining of soccer, the association with the FIFA, the World-wide Championship of Soccer and the World-wide Championship of Feminine Soccer are an agreement very wished.
During this period of eight years, Visa will promote different events and competitions from the FIFA, including the World-wide Championship of Selections, the World-wide Championship of Clubs, World-wide sub-20, the World-wide Interactive FIFA, the World-wide one of Soccer-Beach, World-wide of Feminine Soccer sub-20 and World-wide of Soccer the Room. Visa also will collaborate with the FIFA exploring the possibility of developing and of fomenting soccer for disabled lines of vision, being useful the Visa experience due to its long collaboration with the paralÃmpico sport.
The strategy in agreements of collaboration of the FIFA is designed to improve the development of this sport in all modalities by everybody. A collaborating partner of the FIFA enjoys the high level of association and goes much more there of the mere basic sponsorship of a competition including right on all the events of the FIFA on action of marketing and special events and of development of initiatives. Visa becomes one of the six global organizations thus who compose the first group of partners of the FIFA.
On Visa
In Europe it has more than 302 million cards Visa of credit, debit and of companies. In the 12 months until December end of 2005 those cards they were used to realize distant purchases and of cash by a total volume of more than 1.13 trillions of Euros. Visa is one of the payment marks leaders in the world with more than 1,400 million cards that generate a volume of sales superior to 3.24 trillions of Euros (almost 4.02 trillions of dollars) annual. Visa has a level of matchless acceptance that includes 24 million acceptance points which they include near a million automatic tellers. Visa is an innovating association that a fundamental paper in the world-wide industry of payment means carries out, developing products and technologies that benefit so much to their 21,000 financial organizations member, as to its holders. For more information it visits www.visaeurope.com/esEurope visa includes: Germany; Andorra; Austria; Belgium; Cyprus; Denmark; Slovenia; Slovakia; Spain; Estonia; Finland; France; Gibraltar; Greece; Greenland; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Malta; Norway; The Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Czech Republic Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; UK.
 
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