FIFA elects Swiss lawyer Gianni Infantino as new president
Honoured ... Gianni Infantino of Switzerland reacts after being elected as the FIFA president during an extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland. Photo: AP
Zurich: Swiss football executive Gianni Infantino vowed on Friday to lead FIFA, the sport's world governing body, out of years of corruption and scandal after being elected president to succeed Sepp Blatter.
"We will restore the image of FIFA and the respect of FIFA, and everyone in the world will be proud of us," the 45-year-old law graduate, for the last seven years general secretary of Europe's governing body UEFA, told an extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich.
We will restore the image of FIFA and the respect of FIFA, and everyone in the world will be proud of usFIFA President Gianni Infantino
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