Victor Montagliani (Concacaf president)
Like Infantino, he was elected in 2016 promising governance reform. A former president of Canada Soccer, as co-chair, Montagliani was closely concerned within the construct as much as, and supply of the 2026 World Cup, the primary to be hosted by three nations. He’s fluent in French, Italian and Spanish, in addition to English.
Explaining his resolution to run for the Concacaf presidency, Montagliani informed the BC Enterprise web site: “Like something, after I resolve to go, I am going. I campaigned alone dime for 3 months, went to see all 41 nations, from the US to Bonaire, a little bit island off Venezuela.”
Montagliani took the lead when Concacaf hosted an expanded Copa America in 2024 – in an interview with BBC Sport he rejected the concept it may change into a daily incidence. Politically robust, he smoothed relations round Arsene Wenger’s try to achieve help for a World Cup each two years and has by no means really purchased into the concept of a 64-team World Cup.
On the Leaders convention in 2025, he outlined why he felt soccer was robust sufficient to trip out any storm.
“The sport is greater than world present leaders,” he mentioned. “Soccer will survive regimes. Does it trigger a headache? After all. You must be lifelike about that. That’s the great thing about our recreation, it’s greater than any particular person and nation.”
Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa (AFC president)
Initially elected in 2013, he was elected unopposed for a fourth time period to run to 2027.
The Bahraini has presided over important progress throughout the Asian confederation, by the Champions League Elite, Champions League Two, the Problem League and the Girls’s Champions League, which was launched in 2024-25. The Asian Cup has been expanded to 24 groups.
Sheikh Salman signed off the brutal takedown of how Fifa is being run by Infantino and has carried with him a 46-member confederation, a lot of whom are conscious the figures being provided by Infantino’s plan are enormous by way of their general soccer expenditure.
