Gianni Infantino’s early life

When he was a child, Infantino loved the warm time spent with his family. He respected his parents and paid attention to family ties. Infantino's parents were both immigrants from Italy. In his early years, his father ran a street newsstand for a long time. Although his income was meager, he enjoyed himself. Infantino, who likes to study and strives diligently, likes to go to his father's newsstand since he was a child, and often stays there for the whole day.

While in college, the young Infantino paid for all his tuition and fees to study law at the University of Freiburg through work-study. At that time, Infantino's wish was simple: because he had liked football since he was a child and was a true football fan, he only wanted to pursue a career related to football after graduation. Perhaps it was out of his love for football that Infantino also participated in the Swiss Fourth Division League during college. He served as the right forward of the school team. In a game representing the school, he scored two goals alone. One of the goals was an attack along the wing, passing the opponent's defender and shooting, and the other was a successful sneak attack near the top of the penalty area. This was his highest achievement as a player on the court.

After graduating from university, Infantino became a lawyer and served as secretary-general of the International Sports Research Center of the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. He usually taught legal courses to sports officials. At that time, most of his students came from African football federations or the African Football Confederation. Now most of his students have entered the management of African football federations, which also helped him many years later from this election opponent Salman and his allies, the African Football Confederation Chairman. , FIFA acting president Hayatou's "grabbing for votes" in the palm of his hand after Blatter's suspension laid the groundwork.

In 2000, he successfully entered UEFA and was responsible for legal and commercial affairs - that was his dream job, and finally he was engaged in football-related work. Four years later, Infantino was appointed as UEFA's director of legal affairs and club affairs, but in the eyes of the outside world, it was a thankless position. Infantino believes that as long as you work hard, everything is possible. It was during this period that he had close contact with the European Union, the European Commission and national governments, and developed his political ability and speech eloquence, becoming A rare and precious wealth of experience in professional life.

In 2009 Infantino became the Secretary General of UEFA. However, his focus has changed to implementing financial fair play rules - which will inevitably lead to him offending some wealthy clubs and implementing Platini's European Cup expansion plan - which will inevitably lead to dissatisfaction with some traditional football powers. Not long ago, a country that may have had a bad impression of Infantino was Greece. In 2015, Infantino came forward to negotiate with the Greek government and issued a ban warning due to the Greek government's interference in foreign cooperation work. But it turns out that Infantino succeeded again. Not only did he not make further enemies, but he also developed his super ability to "turn enemies into friends". In recent years, he has won the unprecedented trust of many European giants due to his vigorous promotion of financial fairness policies. For this reason, after he decided to run for the election, even Mourinho, the most valuable and awesome professional coach in the world today, actually stepped forward to lead many world-class superstars like Figo, Capello, and the legendary Brazilian star Roberto Carlos and former Spain captain Fernando Hierro, etc., held large-scale high-profile gatherings and publicly supported Infantino's candidacy for the new FIFA president.

At the age of 38, Infantino has already become the deputy of UEFA President Platini. The "Bald Lottery Brother" has become familiar with the big names in football through various ceremonies. , you have never heard Infantino make any public remarks against Platini. At the end of October 2015, two days before the registration deadline for FIFA's new presidential election, Infantino was launched by UEFA through an emergency conference call to run.

He learned Spanish while working for the Spanish Football Federation in Madrid for a year and married a Lebanese wife. His wife, who has long hair and black-rimmed glasses, is also proficient in multiple languages. She taught him to master Arabic. Infantino can not only handle various media with ease, but also has outstanding language talents that can minimize communication barriers in FIFA, which has 209 member countries.

He is a passionate, active person who likes to listen and is good at weaving networks.