FIFA president, Gianni Infantino was re-elected on Wednesday for a second term at the Congress of the world football’s governing body in Paris.
Infantino, who succeeded Sepp Blatter in 2016, stood unopposed for a new four-year term which will run until 2023.
The 49-year-old had earlier boasted that FIFA had been transformed into an organisation “synonymous with credibility” as he addressed representatives of the 211 member federations, before the Women’s World Cup begins in the French capital on Friday.
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“Today nobody talks about crises, nobody talks about rebuilding FIFA from scratch, nobody talks about scandals, nobody talks about corruption, we talk about football,” insisted the Swiss-Italian lawyer, formerly secretary general of UEFA.
“The very least we can say is that we have turned the situation around.
“In three years and four months, this organisation went from being toxic, almost criminal, to being what it should be, an organisation that develops football, an organisation that cares about football,” Infantino added.
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