PREVIEW-FIFA faces day of reckoning as dangers place

Factbox on Switzerland's Gianni Infantino, one of 5 candidates standing for the FIFA presidency in an

election on Feb.

* Born in Paris on June 15, 1958

* The 57-year-old Frenchman held senior positions at FIFA prior to leaving the organization in 2010.

* Was the very first to state he was running in the 2015 presidential election in January 2014, yet later

on took out when he could possibly not get the support of the obligatory 5 FAs had to safeguard an area

in the race.

* Completed his education and learning in 1981 after obtaining levels at the Institute of Political

Sciences of Paris as well as the Institute of Asian Languages.

* Signed up with France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983 and also during his job as a mediator served

in Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman, Havana, Paris, Los Angeles and Brasilia.

* Became Deputy Consul General in Los Angeles where, throughout the accumulation to the 1994 Globe

Mug in the USA, he satisfied the leaders of the Organising Committee for the 1998 Globe Cup in France,

amongst them Michel Platini and later Sepp Blatter.