Ignacio Alonso | |
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| Born | Ignacio Alonso Labat 2 August 1978 [1] |
| Nationality | Uruguayan |
| Occupation(s) | Member, FIFA Council |
Ignacio Alonso Labat (born 2 August 1978), is a Uruguayan sports administrator and economist who is the president of the Uruguayan Football Association and the member of the FIFA Council since 2019. [2]
Ignacio Alonso was born in Montevideo on 2 August 1978.
He graduated as an economist from the University of the Republic. He worked as an agricultural producer. [2]
His activity at the level of sports leadership begins in Rampla Juniors, the painting of his loves, where he is a member of the Heritage Commission. [2] He later joined the Executive Board of the AUF during the presidency of Sebastián Bauzá; and by Wilmar Valdez. [2]
He also had a brief walk through politics, as a sports advisor to candidate Luis Lacalle Pou in 2014. [2]
In February 2019, Alonso announced his candidacy for the presidency of the Uruguayan Football Association,. [3] a position for which he is officially elected the following month. [2] He plans to lead an organization in a "re-founding" period with the entry into force of a new statute. [4] He is also elected to the FIFA Council in 2019. [1]
He is the second youngest president to assume this position after the record is held by Héctor Rivadavia Gómez, who took office in 1907 when he was only 27 years old. [5]
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