By AFP 31 March 2022 | 12:36 pm Gianni Infantino announced on Thursday he will stand for re-election for a third term as president of FIFA. FIFA president Gianni Infantino poses with Al Rihla, the official match ball before a press conference during the 72th FIFA Congress in the Qatari capital Doha, on March 31, 2022. – The countdown towards the most controversial World Cup in history really begins tomorrow as the draw for Qatar 2022 takes place in Doha 2022, less than eight months befor the start of the tournament itself. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP) Gianni Infantino announced on Thursday he will stand for re-election for a third term as president of FIFA. “I want to tell you that I will be standing for re-election next year,” Infantino said at the congress of world football’s governing body in Doha. Infantino, a 52-year-old Swiss-Italian lawyer, was the secretary-general of the European governing body UEFA before becoming FIFA president in 2016 in the wake of the corruption scandal that brought down predecessor Sepp Blatter. He then won a second term when he stood unopposed for re-election at a congress in Paris in 2019. His mandate then was for four years and the next congress will take place “sometime at the beginning of next year”, Infantino said. Delegates from across the football world were gathered in Doha ahead of Friday’s draw for the World Cup, which Qatar is holding in November and December of this year. Latest NOW Mohamed Salah has stirred doubts about his future with the Egyptian national team following their failure to qualify for the World Cup. 21 mins ago Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi returned for hearings in a junta court Thursday after being quarantined when Covid-19 was detected among her staff, a source with knowledge of her case said. 26 mins ago Every time you go for a facial, you can expect your hair to be tied back and your eyes covered with some cucumber slices. Cucumber slices placed across the eyes have, over time, become a symbol of peak relaxation and rightfully so. But have you ever wondered why cucumbers? Why are these unpopular yet very… 27 mins ago The Kremlin on Thursday denied US and British claims that President Vladimir Putin’s advisers are scared of giving him a true picture of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine. 34 mins ago Beijing on Thursday said it had slapped sanctions on an unspecified number of US officials who “concocted lies” about human rights in China.
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