Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino is the current FIFA President and a Swiss-Italian football administrator. Infantino speaks Italian, Spanish, French, and German fluently, as well as English, Portuguese, and Arabic.
Is Gianni Infantino Italian or Swiss?
Gianni Infantino is Swiss-Italian.
Where are Gianni Infantino parents from?
Infantino’s parents are Italian immigrants from Calabria and Lombardy.
On February 26, 2016, Infantino was elected FIFA President for a three-year term. Infantino, who has dual Swiss and Italian citizenship through his parents, became FIFA’s first Italian President.
Following that incident, FIFA assured Iranian women that they would be permitted to enter stadiums beginning in October 2019. More than 3,500 women attended a World Cup qualifier against Cambodia on October 10, 2019.
On November 19, 2022, just before the start of the World Cup, Infantino accused Western countries of “hypocrisy” for morally criticizing Qatar. During an hour-long monologue, Infantino told reporters, “What we Europeans have been doing for the last 3,000 years, we should be apologizing for the next 3,000 years before we start giving moral lessons.”
