Victor Montagliani (Concacaf president)
Like Infantino, helium was elected successful 2016 promising governance reform. A erstwhile president of Canada Soccer, arsenic co-chair, Montagliani was heavy progressive successful the physique up to, and transportation of the 2026 World Cup, the archetypal to beryllium hosted by 3 nations. He is fluent successful French, Italian and Spanish, arsenic good arsenic English.
Explaining his determination to tally for the Concacaf presidency, Montagliani told the BC Business website: "Like anything, erstwhile I determine to go, I go. I campaigned connected my ain dime for 3 months, went to spot each 41 countries, from the US to Bonaire, a small land disconnected Venezuela."
Montagliani took the pb erstwhile Concacaf hosted an expanded Copa America successful 2024 - successful an interrogation with BBC Sport helium rejected the thought it could go a regular occurrence. Politically strong, helium smoothed relations astir Arsene Wenger's effort to summation enactment for a World Cup each 2 years and has ne'er genuinely bought into the thought of a 64-team World Cup.
At the Leaders league successful 2025, helium outlined wherefore helium felt shot was beardown capable to thrust retired immoderate storm.
"The crippled is bigger than satellite existent leaders," helium said. "Football volition past regimes. Does it origin a headache? Of course. You person to beryllium realistic astir that. That is the quality of our game, it is bigger than immoderate idiosyncratic and country."
Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa (AFC president)
Initially elected successful 2013, helium was elected unopposed for a 4th word to tally to 2027.
The Bahraini has presided implicit important maturation wrong the Asian confederation, done the Champions League Elite, Champions League Two, the Challenge League and the Women's Champions League, which was launched successful 2024-25. The Asian Cup has been expanded to 24 teams.
Sheikh Salman signed disconnected the brutal takedown of however Fifa is being tally by Infantino and has carried with him a 46-member confederation, galore of whom are alert the figures being offered by Infantino's program are immense successful presumption of their wide shot expenditure.
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