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(Named Honorary FIFA President over a month after leaving office) 12 years, 222 days England: 7: João Havelange [note 5] (1916–2016) 8 May 1974 8 June 1998 (Named Honorary FIFA President on the day he left office, resigned on 30 April 2013) 24 years, 31 days Brazil: 8: Sepp Blatter (born 1936) 8 June 1998 8 October 2015 (impeached) [note 6]
As President of FIFA, he oversaw the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, which he described as "the best World Cup ever" and for which he accepted Order of Friendship medal given to him by Vladimir Putin. He oversaw the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar during which time he defended or minimized controversies surrounding Qatar's human rights record ...
The African Football League (AFL) is a continental men's club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). [1] [2] It was announced on 28 November 2019 by Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA and it was initially launched as the Africa Super League on 10 August 2022 in Tanzania and was to include twenty-four elite African clubs with a promotion and relegation ...
The FIFA president said his organization is "anxiously awaiting" more evidence before asking its ethics committee to examine allegations made in Britain's Parliament in early May 2011. Hayatou, who is from Cameroon, leads the Confederation of African Football and is a FIFA vice-president.
The new club competition uses the traditional 32-team format used by the World Cup from 1998 to 2022. Eight round-robin groups of four teams each, and the top two advance to a knockout bracket of 16.
“Next year, in July 2025, FIFA will help celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Miami Dade College with a very special exhibition coming from the FIFA Museum in Zurich,” Infantino explained.
On 31 March 2022, during the 72nd FIFA Congress in Doha, incumbent FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced his candidacy for a third term. [2] After the deadline on 18 November 2022, he was the only candidate, thus he won the election by acclamation .
An AI-generated candidate has launched a hypothetical campaign to become president of Fifa in a bid to show that football could be run differently. “Hope Sogni” — created by the sports ...