TORI NG
FIFA President, Gianni Infantino has been re-elected for another term. He will lead the World’s Football Governing body till 2027 after winning unopposed at the congress of world football’s governing body on Thursday.
The 52-year-old Swiss lawyer, who succeeded former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter in 2016, was waved in for a third term by acclamation, just as he was four years ago, by delegates from the 211 member federations.
“To all those who love me, and I know there are so many, and also those who hate me, I know there are a few: I love you all,” Infantino told delegates in Kigali, the Rwandan capital.
While FIFA statutes currently limit a president to a maximum of three four-year terms, Infantino has already prepared the ground to stay until 2031, declaring in December that his first three years at the helm did not count as a full term…
