New FIFA President Has Big Job Undoing Sepp Blatter's Damage
- Infantino must convince skittish corporate sponsors to return
- Run-up to 2018 World Cup faces $550 million revenue shortfall
Gianni Infantino. Photographer: Alexander Hassenstein/FIFA via Getty Images
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For the first time in nearly three decades global soccer has a leader whose name isn’t Sepp Blatter.
After passing sweeping reforms earlier in the day, FIFA’s 207 delegates elected Gianni Infantino, a European soccer official who hails from a Swiss canton a few miles from Blatter’s hometown. Infantino won with 115 votes, beating three other contenders.