YOGYAKARTA - Prior to being elected as President of FIFA, Gianni Infantino was the Secretary General of UEFA from 2009 to 2016. At the helm of UEFA administration, he helped strengthen the national team and club football in Europe and created a more democratic and sustainable environment for European football through initiatives such as Financial Fair Games. Let's find out Gianni Infantino's profile....

Since his election at the FIFA Extraordinary Congress on February 26, 2016, Gianni Infantino has focused his presidency on reposing FIFA as a credible, trustworthy, modern, professional, and accountable organization.

Working with the FIFA Council, 211 FIFA member associations and the administration of more than 800 employees, he has achieved this through the implementation of a broad reform process, including the establishment of good governance and compliance functions, and various initiatives., among them is the most ambitious, efficient, and accountable football development program in FIFA history, with FIFA member associations entitled to five times the amount of investment their rights in 2015.

After delivering a successful reform process, the new FIFA has expanded its insights to take a more active role as a responsible member of the global community, either through the promotion of education and life skills for children under the FIFA Football Program for Schools, the protection of minors and members of a vulnerable football family with the FIFA Guard initiative, or by partnering with international organizations including various bodies of the United Nations, the African Union, ASEAN, and the European Council to use the unique strength of football as a driver of positive social progress.

Gianni Infantino's long-term vision for FIFA is to make football truly global by increasing organizational games and standards on each continent and expanding participation in the world's most prestigious football competition: the FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women's World Cup.

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