Staff Reporter.
(Reuters) – The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) expressed its unanimous support for incumbent Fifa president Gianni Infantino as he seeks to be re-elected at the 73rd Fifa congress in March next year.
Infantino, 52, will be standing for a third stint in charge of football’s global governing body having defeated Sheikh Salman to claim the presidency in 2016 following Sepp Blatter’s resignation.
“After a conversation about the current reality and the future scenario for South American and world football, the Conmebol member associations gave their unanimous support to Infantino…,” Conmebol said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have also expressed their support for Infantino in recent months.