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The” Bald UEFA “today does not offend, but I wonder what will if, however, will be the new head of FIFA. Gianni Infantino, UEFA general secretary master of ceremonies during the draws, gets to the election in the event that Michel Platini could not run

Platini remains a candidate supported by the majority of members of UEFA, but is suspended for 90 days by the ethics committee of FIFA (As of 2 million francs in 2011, Platini transferred by Sepp Blatter, without coverage in the papers FIFA) and, if found guilty, it will not be able to compete in the February elections successor to Blatter. And that the deadline for applications from candidates passed on Monday October 26, Infantino shall be submitted to UEFA has not been without candidature. The UEFA Executive Committee unanimously gave him on Monday support.

Pelato, that is bald from the beads

If This was a general election, you probably Infantino won a few long, because it is by keeping draws one of the most famous faces in football. And one of the most popular. UEFA bald, bald from the beads, etc.

– Of course, he knows what a sensation makes the network. Sometimes accosted him in jest: in Poland, you’re not Gianni Infantino only “Pelato”, or “bald”. And you are one of the most popular. Another thing that he is a hero of the Polish Internet and elsewhere so popular it is – says the head of the PZPN Sport.pl Zbigniew Boniek. – Gianni is a decent man, a family man (has four children – ed.), We like to. I told him that sometimes even better hejty throwing to a pośmiał. And he had a rematch said during the draw, the final will take place at the stadium named Zbigniew Boniek in Warsaw – says Boniek.

Born five kilometers from Blatter

Jokes aside, but this popularity does not mean that much we know about Infantino. A curriculum vitae is interesting. If he won the election, the succession of power in FIFA rozegrałaby in a radius of five kilometers. Because so many divides Visp, where he was born Blatter, from Brig, where he was born Infantino. UEFA general secretary has parents Italians, it also has Italian citizenship as the second, but the Swiss. For the same canton of Valais at Blatter speaks the same dialect of German at Blatter.

And how Blatter would reach the control of the ball with the position of Secretary General. Except that it was Blatter FIFA. A way to the top of football was longer and more tortuous. The boss was, with 62 years, after nearly a quarter-century in the corridors FIFA. Infantino is barely 45 years, of which UEFA has spent the last 15 Blatter is the way football was active in hockey, was a marketer, among others, the Longines until he won the confidence of the head of Adidas Horst Dassler and this put him in the FIFA as his man.

Lawyer of the license

Infantino, UEFA got as a lawyer and researcher. He was the secretary general of the International Center for Sports Studies (CIES) at the University of Neuchatel. In this role, he advised, among others, Liga, Italian and Swiss. The UEFA also dealt with the first football club, as a specialist in law and licensing system. And when in 2007, won elections in UEFA, Michel Platini, did Infantiniego one of his closest associates. Interim Secretary General of the Italian Swiss was already in the first days after the takeover of power by Platini. The former secretary-general Lars-Christer Olsson, right-hand man of the previous chief Lennart Johansson, had to go. Infantino took over its role in the transitional period, then general secretary David Taylor, but since 2009 Infantino returned permanently.

Boniek: Michel never leave

– certainly has adequate facilities to for leadership in the FIFA apply – says Zbigniew Boniek. Infantino speaks six languages, including Arabic, arouses sympathy and so far nothing to him not przylepiło when coming out to light various dirt football.

– But I still believe that our candidate is Michel Platini that when you get a chance to explain what it was about money, purge your name and will fight the election – says Boniek. – I said before the previous elections in FIFA that Blatter’s re-election is an extension of agony that he is not corrupt, but the organization is and needs a breakthrough. I did not change my opinion. I do not turn away too easily from friends. Once for Joe Młynarczyka I was ready to sacrifice career year (in terms of the so-called. Scandal at Okecie airport in 1980. – Ed.). Michel also will not leave.

Infantino will be the seventh no longer a candidate in the February elections in the FIFA: before it submitted in addition to Platini, the head of Asian football, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, vice-president of FIFA’s Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein Jordan, Tokyo Sexwale, a businessman from South Africa, a political prisoner in apartheid-era David Nakhid, a former football player from Trinidad and Tobago, and Frenchman Jerome Champagne, formerly deputy secretary general of FIFA.

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