Meet the new FIFA President.

Gianni Infantino is a Swiss football administrator and currently the FIFA president. He has been the general secretary of UEFA since 2009 and holds Swiss, Greek and Italian nationality.He was elected as FIFA president during the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress on 26 February 2016 which was held with the purpose of reforming FIFA. On 26 October 2015, Infantino received the full backing of the UEFA Executive Committee to stand for the position of FIFA president in the upcoming FIFA Extraordinary Congress.On the same day, he confirmed his candidacy and he submitted the required declarations of support. On 26 February 2016, Infantino was elected as the new FIFA President at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zürich, Switzerland . A multi-lingual lawyer, he is married and has four children. Gianni Infantino was born on 23 March 1970 in Brig , Switzerland. He is of Italian origin from Calabria and Lombardy .He studied law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and speaks Italian, French, German , English, and Spanish fluently. Prior to joining UEFA, Gianni Infantino worked as the Secretary General of the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) at the University of Neuchâtel, having previously been an adviser to a variety of football bodies in Italy, Spain and Switzerland. We wish the new President a successful tenure of office.