Infantino Re-Elected As FIFA President For Second Term

Over three years after taking workplace to interchange the scandal-hit Sepp Blatter, Gianni Infantino obtained the confirmatory vote of FIFA’s 211 member associations, re-elected right here on Wednesday as president of the world soccer’s governing physique.

The 49-year-old Swiss-Italian was the only real candidate operating for the 2019-2023 time period and the standard vote was thus changed with applause at FIFA’s 69th Congress.

Promising to not “stand nonetheless” however to develop the sport and “defend soccer”, an emotional Infantino mentioned in his closing speech that his precedence is to create extra youth competitions, to proceed on growing girls’s soccer and to arrange a “world conference on soccer growth”.

Forward of the announcement of his re-election, Infantino summarized what the FIFA has achieved beneath his reign, given the duty of restoring the governing physique’s status after his predecessor Blatter’s a number of corruption scandals.