Ignacio Alonso

Uruguayan administrator

Ignacio Alonso

Born	Ignacio Alonso Labat (1978-08-02) 2 August 1978 (age 45)^[1] Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality	Uruguayan
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

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