Olympic javelin star Arshad Nadeem met Fifa president Gianni Infantino at the World Sports Summit in Dubai, where the football chief acknowledged knowledge of the Pakistani athlete’s achievements.
The interaction took place on the sidelines of the summit, where Infantino asked Nadeem about his throwing distance. “It was a throw of 92 meters and now I want to break that record,” Nadeem told the Fifa president.
Infantino expressed goodwill towards the Pakistani athlete and posed for photographs with him during the meeting. The Fifa chief’s awareness of Nadeem’s achievements pleasantly surprised the Olympic champion.
Separately, Nadeem was presented with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Sports Award in the Global Breakthrough Athlete category at the World Sports Summit in the presence of prominent figures from the global sports community.
