FIFA: "My main task will be to bring football back to FIFA and FIFA back to football" (G. Infantino)

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"My main task will be to bring football back to FIFA and FIFA back to football. The image of FIFA is not very high and has to come back to the top again. We have to work 100, 200, 1000% for football," said Gianni Infantino, the UEFA general secretary and candidate for the presidency of FIFA, in London (England), on 01/02/2016.

The managers Jose Mourinho (POR) and Fabio Capello (ITA), former candidate for the presidency of FIFA Luis Figo (POR), and former international stars Roberto Carlos (BRA) and Fernando Hierro (ESP) attended the presentation o fGianni Infantino's programme for the first 90 days of his presidency, if elected during the congress of the international federation in Zurich (SUI) on 26/02/2016.

"I have a 90-day action plan to take FIFA forward if I am elected on 26/01/2016. In politics it is normally 100 days. But I am not a politician. I am a doer, a maker and someone who believes in a lot of things. I believe it will be done in 90 days," said Gianni Infantino.

Consultation with key business partners of FIFA, the launching of the bidding process for the organisation…

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