Saturday, September 03, 2016

Top 10 Football most Influential people In The World

Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino 
 Is a football administrator and current FIFA president. He holds dual nationality, Swiss and Italian. He has been the general secretary of UEFA since 2009 and was elected president of FIFA during the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress on 26 February 2016.

Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa
Is the President of the Asian Football Confederation since 2 May 2013. Before his election as the president of AFC, he was president
of Bahrain Football Association and also Chairman of the Asian Football Confederation Disciplinary Committee, and Deputy Chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee.
     

Pierluigi Collina
 Is an Italian former football referee. He is widely considered the best referee of his generation, having been named FIFA's "Best Referee of the Year" six consecutive times.Collina is still involved in football, as an unpaid consultant to the Italian Football  Referees Association (AIA), as the Head of Referees for the Football Federation of Ukraine since 2010 and as a member of the UEFA Referees Committee.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento 
known as Pele  is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).

Issa Hayatou
Is a Cameroonian former athlete and sports executive. He served as the acting FIFA president until 26 February 2016 as the previous president, Sepp Blatter, was banned from all football-related activities in 2015 as a part of the FIFA corruption investigation of 2015.He has been the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1988.

Lionel Andrés Messi.
Is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and rated by many in the sport as the greatest of all time, Messi is the only football player in history to win five FIFA Ballons d'Or, four of which he won consecutively, and the first player to win three European Golden Shoes. With Barcelona he has won eight La Liga titles and four UEFA Champions League titles, as well as four Copas del Rey. Both a prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals scored in La Liga, a La Liga season (50), a football season (82), and a calendar year (91), as well as those for most assists made in La Liga and the Copa America.

Nasser Al-Khelaïfi 
Is chairman and chief executive officer of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club in France  which is wholly owned by Qatar Sports Investments. He is also a member of the organizing committee for the FIFA Club World Cup.
In 2015, he was crowned ‘favourite Ligue 1. president’ and in 2016, L'Equipe named him ‘the most powerful man in French football.

Florentino Pérez Rodríguez
Is a Spanish businessman, civil engineer, former politician, and current president of Real Madrid, as well as Grupo ACS, a civil engineering company. He is most famous for ushering in Real Madrid's period of Los Galácticos, a time when the club paid extremely high transfer fees for elite footballers.

Jorge Paulo Agostinho Mendes.
Is a Portuguese football agent. He is registered with the Portuguese Football Federation and heads the GestiFute company, founded in 1996. Mendes is among the most influential football agents in the world, with clients including Aitor Karanka, Anderson, André Gomes, Burak Yılmaz, Carlos Queiroz, Cristiano Ronaldo, David de Gea, Diego Costa, Fábio Coentrão, James Rodríguez, João Moutinho, José Mourinho, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Nani, Pepe, Radamel Falcao, Renato Sanches,  Mendes is often referred to as a "super-agent"
Mendes has been named Best Agent of the Year at the Globe Soccer Awards six consecutive times, from 2010 to 2015.

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix.
Is a Portuguese professional football manager and former football player. He is the manager of Premier League club Manchester United.
He is regarded by a number of players, coaches, and commentators as one of the greatest and most successful managers in the world.


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