Infantino, the lawyer of Calabrian origins tifava Inter – Sport Mediaset

the origins in Italy , the birth and career in Swiss , professional success to the technical design of the Uefa, alongside Platini . John Infantino , newly elected President of FIFA, and ‘born almost 46 years ago (23 March 1970) to Brig , Switzerland , near the Italian border. His birthplace, in canton Valais, is ten kilometers from Visp, city ‘Blatter home.

A kind of predestination, so even if the roots of Infantino are clearly Italian, the country of which he is cittandinanza, in addition to that in Switzerland, of course. The father comes in fact from Reggio Calabria , the mother from the Val Camonica. Before the birth of John, the parents have moved to work in Swiss , where Mom was in charge of a newspaper kiosk and her father worked in the railway company, with a specific task in the sleeping cars. Legend or reality ‘, it is said that Infantino, to pay for his law studies at the University’ of Fribourg , he worked in the summer on the sleepers. Although he never renounced their Italian roots – he has also recently bought a house in Reggio Calabria and received the 2006 ” San Giorgio gold ” – Infantino has played all its activities’, student and professional in Switzerland.

Contrary to Blatter , and not ‘very attached to the land of birth. It seems that you come back often little in Valais, where two sisters still live, happy in his home in Trelex, in the canton of Vaud, a stone’s throw from the headquarters of UEFA. A charming little village of 1,400 souls in which he resides (at least officially) also French tennis player Gael Monfils. Player of very modest level, even more ‘of almost compatriot Blatter, (he never passed the fourth league, namely the penultimate division of Swiss football), supporter of’ Inter , Infantino has nevertheless played almost all his career in connection with the ball. It began as a consultant for leagues and clubs (he, for example, defended the Zion – winning – in an appeal against Spartak Moscow in the UEFA Cup for a problem of too low doors), then worked as Secretary general of the Cies, international center for sports studies, site Neuchatel and sponsored by Fifa.

True multilingual – fluent in Italian, French, German, English and Spanish and also has some knowledge of Arabic, because the Lebanese wife – and ‘came to’ Uefa in 2000 for various consultations. In 2004 he became head of the legal affairs department in 2007 with the election of Platini – of which supported the campaign against Lennart Johansson, who had it to progress to UEFA – becomes Secretary General ad interim before and then definitively in 2009. Given the right arm of Platini – seems among other things that the ex-Juventus is the godfather of one of his four daughters – the link has cooled after the decision to Infantino to show up to the FIFA presidency, following the legal troubles of the French. Now Infantino’s going to Blatter to the world football guide, in the place that Platini would have wanted for himself ‘.