FIFA President Gianni Infantino announces candidacy for third term

ANKARA

Gianni Infantino confirmed his candidacy Thursday in the next FIFA presidential election in 2023.

"I want to tell you that I will run for re-election next year," the Swiss-Italian said at the 72nd FIFA Congress in Qatar’s capital, Doha.

Infantino, 52, who will run for his third term, has been chairman of football’s governing body since February 2016.