Bolivian President Evo Morales stated that he would support any Federation of Football Associations (FIFA)'s attempt to defend official high altitude soccer games.

Morales made this statement after his meeting with a FIFA delegation at the Government Palace, where they discussed the high altitude factor and Bolivian soccer crises.

"I am going to be a defender of FIFA and its philosophical principles, which say in the federation's statutes that soccer is universal and does not discriminate," Morales told press.

He said to be willing to prove, based on scientific studies that it is not in highlands where the largest number of lives has been lost for practicing soccer and sports in general.

He also said that FIFA expressed its willingness to help improve the Bolivian national sport.

Bolivian President was one of the promoters of a world campaing in 2007 against FIFA's decision to forbid soccer games in stadiums located over 1640 feet high, which barred Bolivians from practicing in their main national soccer fields. That banning also affectes Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.