The 47th UEFA Congress will take place at the Lisbon Congress Center on April 5, that body announced on Monday, in a session in which it is expected to elect Fernando Gomes, president of the Portuguese Football Federation, to the FIFA Council.
The work of the event, which will take place at the Lisbon Congress Center, is scheduled between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., followed by a press conference by President Aleksandr Ceferin, with the presentation of the annual reports, including the annual report and accounts and the budget for 2023/24.
The Slovenian will be re-elected, as he is running alone for a new four-year term, and Fernando Gomes will also be elected to the FIFA Council, since the resignation of Noël Le Graët, from the presidency of the French Football Federation , left him as the only one eligible.
On the other hand, the 71-year-old president of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) will leave the UEFA vice-presidency upon reaching the age limit.
According to UEFA, the FPF clarifies in a statement, the Executive Committee will meet the day before, April 4, but then journalists will have access prohibited, and they will not be able to ask questions, since “all decisions made will be transmitted by press”. release”.
The Portuguese Fernando Gomes will be elected for a four-year term, after having served two terms of two years each, the last one until 2019, without having applied again in 2021, despite having remained an executive member of UEFA.
Gomes’ candidacy for this FIFA executive body coincides with Portugal’s race, along with Spain and Ukraine, to host the 2030 World Cup.
In the same act, a FIFA vice president will also be elected, a position for which the Hungarian Sándor Csányi, current holder of the position, is competing against the Finnish Ari Lahti, while Debbie Hewitt and David Martin are the candidates for FIFA vice president. -Presidents of the British federations.
Source: TSF
