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Gianni Infantino re-elected as FIFA president until 2027
Gianni Infantino was re-elected as the president of FIFA until 2027 at the 73rd Congress of the body in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Thursday.
He was unopposed during the vote.
The 52-year-old Italian-Swiss, renewed under the same conditions in 2019 by the delegates of the 211 member federations, could remain at the head of world football until 2031 with his first three-year lease being considered incomplete.
Infantino’s re-election has been the subject of frequent dissent by FIFA’s member associations, over his support for the Qatar World Cup.
The voting system used this time did not make it possible to count dissenting votes.
In his defence, the 52-year-old can show FIFA’s solid financial balance sheet, with an 18% increase in income and 45% in reserves over the 2019-22 cycle compared to the previous one, allowing the body to further increase its subsidies to confederations and federations.
On the governance side, his last mandate was marked by a vast reform of transfers and maternity leave for professional players, alongside more protective rules of disciplinary procedure for victims of sexual violence.
The main projects for the next few years have already been approved: starting with the passage of the Men’s World Cup from 32 to 48 teams in the 2026 edition of the same, which will be shared between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Decided in 2017, its format was set on Tuesday.
By opting for a group stage with twelve groups of four teams, the tournament will jump from 64 to 104 matches, a behemoth cut to explode ticketing revenue and attract even more broadcasters.
More delicately, FIFA decided on December 16 to expand its Club World Cup from an annual seven-team format to a quadrennial competition with 32 teams from the summer of 2025 – a project that Infantino is trying to bring to fruition for years to compete with the lucrative UEFA Champions League.
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Bari still knocked out and last, Modena gets unblocked
Modena-Bari 2-1
Second consecutive defeat (third considering also the elimination from the Coppa Italia at the hands of Cremonese on penalties) for Bari, last in the Serie B standings obviously with zero points.
The Apulian team è was also beaten in the advance of the second day of the cadet championship, played at the Alberto Braglia Stadium in Modena against the hosts coached by Bisoli (expelled for double admonition for protests). Palumbo and Pedro Mendes reversed the guest’s initial lead by Novakovich.
This is the schedule for the rest of the day:
Saturday, August 24, 7:30 pm
Südtirol – Salernitana
Or 20:30
Brescia – Cittadella
Cremonese – Carrarese
Pisa – Palermo
Sampdoria – Reggiana
Sassuolo – Cesena
Spezia – Frosinone
Sunday, August 25, 8:30 pm
Catanzaro – Juve Stabia
Mantua – Cosenza
CLASSIFICATION
Juve Stabia 3
Cesena 3
Salernitana 3
SudTirol 3
Brescia 3
Cosenza 3
Modena 3
Spezia 1
Pisa 1
Frosinone 1
Mantua 1
Reggiana 1
Sampdoria 1
Catanzaro 1
Sassuolo 1
Cittadella 0
Carrarese 0
Cremonese 0
Palermo 0
Bari 0
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Simone Giannelli returns to work after Olympics
The words of Simone Giannelli
Simone Giannelli, Sir’s blue-blue setter, at the end of his three-year term, has renewed for three more seasons and is thus about to experience his fourth consecutive one in the HCL jersey. In just three years he has won with President Gino Sirci’s club two Club World Cups, two Super Cups, two Italian Cups and a Scudetto.
He underwent a session in the weight room this morning and will join the group in the coming days. Muscle strengthening in the weight room also for center Roberto Russo, who renewed for two more years (until 2025-26) and is about to play his sixth season in a row with Sir Susa Vim Perugia. Kamil Semeniuk è is in his third year at Sir. He, too, took the weight room session this morning and says he is ready to start again toward all the club’s goals.
“I am very happy to be back here in Perugia and to have started the preparation for this new season,” said Simone Gianelli, “this is now my home and I am really happy to have found everyone again! It has already been three years and we start with the fourth, è amazing how fast time goes by, so I am very happy to have ended my last contract and to have opened another cycle, I am very happy becauseé playing here in Perugia è always a pleasure and a pride. I’m very charged up: the successes there have been quite a few these years, I’m glad forò those are now behind us so we have to try to think about what we have to do to try to get back to being “final””.
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Max Verstappen worried, Lewis Hamilton laughs it off
The words of Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen isn’t satisfied with Friday’s fifth time: “We’re a little bit too slow in the short runs and also in the race simulation, there’s a lot of work to do. At the moment there’è no immediate way to improve the situation, but we will look at it in detail”.
“For now we are simply too slow, that’s it. This performance is not è a big surprise: we are where we were in the last few races. We will try to find moreù performance for Sunday”, concluded his analysis the home driver, definitely worried.
In a different mood Lewis Hamilton: ““We finally have a car that allows us to start already on Friday from a good base and then work on the details. That makes everything easier and more enjoyable. We have to improve on pure performance. As for the pace over distance, I don’t know yet. We are not the fastest, but maybe we can play it”.
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