The secretary becomes king. Gianni Infantino, the Italian-Swiss lawyer, ascended to the throne of world football, the ninth president of Fifa. Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa had to surrender conspicuously, 115 preferences against 88. Origins Italian, father of Reggio Calabria and mother of Valcamonica, Infantino was born in Brig, just over the border and Berne, 23 March 1970, under the sign Aries, in the country where his parents had emigrated in the sixties and where the father worked on the railroad, in the sleeping cars. Trains were important in the life of the newly elected president of FIFA, football boss who wants to bring this world into the future from the time of freeing Blatter father-master, the Swiss colonel who has made this organization its fortress. Now, Blatter is the past. important trains to Infantino because he worked there, man of the sleeping cars cleaning but also Mother’s aide in his newsstand. All this to pay for their studies, those who have seen him specialize in sports law. Important trains to which is attached as it is tied to his roots, to Italy, which Infantino in the heart as our football that saw up close, a fan at the San Siro Inter Altobelli and Beccalossi. It was the early eighties, those of the World of Spain and Paolo Rossi.
PLAYER LOST
Football came early in the attractions of the young Gianni. That, however, talent to be a good player he had little. So little that it was already eleven field: not to play but to organize tournaments with friends and then to eighteen his Thunderbolt, the Valais canton team that had founded, was promoted to the penultimate category. From Thunderbolt, Infantino street has come. He graduated in law, he joined the University of Neuchatel before joining, in 2000, Uefa. First assignment was to the director of the Legal Affairs Division and Licensing clubs. Nine years later, he became general secretary Infantino, faithful man of President Platini which had risen to the European football throne two years before which yesterday, a moment after the election, the new head of world football has addressed a thought.
tHE MAN OF REFORMS
Multilingual and attentive to history, the events that have marked the world. Infantino closed his campaign in South Africa, Robben Island, the island off the coast of Cape Town where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. A good sign, his. Multilingual, they said. She speaks six languages - in Italian house, English, French and Arabic as the wife is Lebanese – and this gift is a sign of respect not only for others but also communication. Presenting his program to the members of the Federations, Infantino used them all. Now the Italian-Swiss lawyer who dreams to return soon to Reggio Calabria, in the house he owns in which there are the memories of his father, is ready to put the ball in the middle and play. A new football, what promises, made to reforms and good governance, democracy and participation but also developing. A kick, his, which must not only be technological but transparent with a clear, indeed very clear, separation of powers and functions without political interference. The new president, who in this world is well navigated, knows that to keep faith with this election promise will have to work hard struggling against the existing power. No longer wants an Executive in his Fifa, Infantino, but a FIFA Council will be established to strategy and oversight, and will consist of 36 members. He wants to open to the Confederations that will have, each, at least one woman. He wants to be the man of the reforms but also a man of action to give back to Fifa that, as he wrote, through one of the worst crises in its centuries-old history, a clean face. The challenge, now, part of the World Infantino who wants to 40 teams against the present 32 to allow more federations to invest more resources. And the Federations, which are 209, will face, according to his electoral program, with a check for $ 5 million every four years for development projects and, for the same reasons, elargirà 40 million to each confederation. All this by allocating half of the Fifa revenue. Among his projects also to bring top players around the world to tell their stories.
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