Fifa has added Arabic as an official language to its football streaming platform, marking the announcement with a documentary focusing on Liverpool star Mohamed Salah.
Fifa confirmed on Wednesday that “Fifa+”, the platform launched in April, would now be available in 10 languages, with Arabic joining Bahasa, Italian, Japanese and Korean as new localised editions.
The hope is the new addition would allow for the “Fifa+” to serve a larger audience in the build-up to the World Cup in Qatar later this year – the first global finals to be held in the Middle East and Arab world.
Liverpool star Mo Salah will be the focus of a new Fifa documentary. The launch coincided with the release of two new “Original” documentaries: Mo: A Global Icon, which according to Fifa, “charts Mo Salah’s impact on the world”, and Habsi, a “behind-the-scenes journey into the career of [former Bolton Wanderers, Wigan Athletic and Al Hilal] goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi, from Oman to the Premier League, FA Cup glory and beyond”.