By Samindra Kunti in Kigali, Rwanda
March 14 – Norway FA president Lise Klaveness has spoken of a “realm of concern” amongst soccer FA presidents as Gianni Infantino heads for re-election and one other four-year time period as FIFA president within the Rwandan capital.
Klaveness (pictured) spoke of a tradition the place one choice is leveraged towards one other, but additionally pointed, from her federation’s standpoint, to a definite lack of belief over how Infantino leads the world federation. She accused Infantino of a scarcity of seriousness over reforms, of intervening in nationwide FAs, of forcing via choices with out session, and eventually of cozying up all an excessive amount of to politicians.
Whereas Klaveness’ evaluation will ring a bell with many, it gained’t stop Infantino from storming to re-election on Thursday, the fruit of distributing growth cash from the FIFA Ahead 2.0 programme in addition to a consequence of the eye-watering and rising money reserves FIFA possesses. Infantino’s election virtually boils right down to a single query: will it’s by acclamation or not?
The Norwegian FA president nonetheless is looking for to carve out her personal place within the sport.
On the sidelines of official actions within the build-up to the FIFA Congress Klaveness met with the German FA president Bernd Neuendorf, discussing amongst others her bid for a seat on the UEFA govt committee.
Within the race for an everyday seat on the committee, Klaveness is campaigning, having met the FA presidents of Portugal, Romania and Belgium amongst others. She referred to as the assembly with Belgian FA president Paul Van den Bulck ‘inspiring’. The English FA has endorsed Klaveness via a letter, she mentioned.
Jesper Moller from Denmark can be up for (re-)election, which may result in a break up within the votes for the Nordic candidates. The UEFA govt elections will happen through the confederation’s congress in April in Lisbon.
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