Infantino gets 2nd term as FIFA president
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Gianni Infantino was reelected yesterday by acclamation for a second term as FIFA president at the congress of world football’s governing body in Paris.
The 49-year-old, who took charge of FIFA in February 2016 after the departure of the disgraced Sepp Blatter, stood unopposed for a new four-year term which will run until 2023.
Infantino insists FIFA has been transformed into an organization “synonymous with credibility.”
“Today nobody talks about crises, about rebuilding FIFA from scratch, nobody talks about scandals, nobody talks about corruption, we talk about football,” the former secretary general of UEFA said. “The least we can say is that we have turned the situation around.
“In three years and four months, this organization went from being toxic, almost criminal, to being what it should be, an organization that develops football, an organization that cares about football.”
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