Ball control: Gianni Infantino is running unopposed for a third term ad FIFA president
KIGALI: Disparaged and yet seemingly indestructible, Gianni Infantino is poised to start a third term at the head of FIFA on Thursday.
Infantino is for a second time running unopposed for the presidency of the world football’s governing body which he has led since stepping into the vacuum created by the fall of his predecessor Sepp Blatter and his former boss at UEFA, Michel Platini.
This will give the 52-year-old a chance to bring to fruition the multiple projects he likes to launch out of the blue and sometimes abandons in the face of opposition.
Infantino, a lawyer, was UEFA’s general secretary from 2009. He moved up in 2016 when he won an…
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