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Jan 2022
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Gianni Infantino now cares about drownin...

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Gianni Infantino  used the drowning African refugees in the Mediterranean to push for the biannual world cup proposal. 



 Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino is a Swiss-Italian football administrator and the current president of FIFA. He was elected President of FIFA during the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress in February 2016. He was re-elected as FIFA President in June 2019.  



FIFA is a non-profit organization that describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer. It is the highest governing body of association football.


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