Gianni Infantino has been re-elected as the president of world football governing body, FIFA, until 2023, the football body confirms.
Infantino was re-elected at the 69th FIFA Congress convened today in Paris. The ninth president in the history of the organisation was first elected at an Extraordinary Congress in February 2016 and now starts his first full four-year term of office after running unopposed and being elected by acclamation by FIFA’s 211 member associations.
“In just over three years, this organisation went from being toxic, almost criminal, to being what it should be: an institution that develops football,” says Infantino when addressing the Congress. “This new FIFA has a mission and a plan for it, which is why the next four years have, in fact, already started: we have laid solid building blocks for the future.”
The 70th FIFA Congress will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in May 2020.
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