Ignacio Alonso
Born
Ignacio Alonso Labat

(1978-08-02) 2 August 1978[1]
Montevideo, Uruguay
NationalityUruguayan
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]

Biography

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]

References

  1. 1 2 FIFA.com. "FIFA Council Members - FIFA.com". www.fifa.com. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "¿Quién es Ignacio Alonso?". Ovación Digital. 22 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Ignacio Alonso confirma candidatura a la Presidencia de la AUF". Fútbol.uy. 28 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "El flamante presidente de la AUF". Telenoche. 22 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Entrevista al Ec. Alonso". Tenfield. 10 November 2015.
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