Hong Kong picked as site for Fifa Museum as it is ‘amazing starting point’ to Asia
Fifa Museum boss Marco Fazzone, who is here for the site’s grand opening, says the city is ‘full of energy’ and ‘you have everything here’
Fifa Museum executives picked Hong Kong as the first city in Asia to have an official museum because its status as an international hub made it an “amazing starting point” in the region.
Fifa Museum managing director Marco Fazzone, who was in the city with Italian 2006 World Cup winner Marco Materazzi for the grand opening on Thursday, also believed there would be more locations around the world in the next decade.
The city’s Fifa Museum, which will be open for six months, is one of five operating during the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Alongside the main facility in Zurich, others have been placed in Miami, New York and Vancouver.
“From Hong Kong, you embrace the whole world. It’s vibrant, full of energy here. You have business, sports, culture, design. You have everything here,” Fazzone said.
“Our ambition is to share the magic of football with the entire world. And Hong Kong, for us, with the story, with the city, with the infrastructure, with the member association and partners, here is an amazing, beautiful starting point in East Asia.”
Located on the fourth floor of Times Square in Causeway Bay, the museum has replicas of both the Women’s World Cup trophy and the Jules Rimet Trophy, which was awarded to men’s winners until Brazil were allowed to keep it after their third triumph in 1970.