African nations would support Gianni Infantino for re-election as FIFA president, the head of the continental football federation Ahmad Ahmad said on Sunday. “I feel it is my duty… to announce this support from Africa,” Ahmad said at a special meeting of the Confederation of African Football Executive Committee, which Infantino attended, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Infantino, a former deputy head of UEFA, was first elected in 2016 to succeed Sepp Blatter, when the scandal that engulfed the governing body of world football was at its height. The next presidential election will be held in Paris in June 2019 and Infantino has said he will stand. “Deep analysis” makes it possible to “see more clearly the various problems that undermine African football,” he said.

Source: Punch September 30, 2018 12:22 UTC