Ignacio Alonso | |
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 Alonso in 2019 | |
| Born | Ignacio Alonso Labat (1978-08-02)2 August 1978 (age 47)[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Member,FIFA Council |
Ignacio Alonso Labat (born 2 August 1978), is a Uruguayan sports administrator and economist who is the president of theUruguayan Football Association and the member of theFIFA Council since 2019.[2]
Ignacio Alonso was born in Montevideo on 2 August 1978.
He graduated as an economist from theUniversity of the Republic. He worked as an agricultural producer.[2]
His activity at the level of sports leadership begins inRampla Juniors, the club he supports, where he is a member of the Heritage Commission.[2] He later joined the Executive Board of the AUF during the presidency ofSebastián Bauzá; and byWilmar Valdez.[2]
He also had a brief walk through politics, as a sports advisor to candidateLuis 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 byHéctor Rivadavia Gómez, who took office in 1907 when he was only 27 years old.[5]