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24 January 2025 - 05:00
Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s mother nicknamed her son the “little rebel”. He was, according to his cousin Renato Vitetta, bouncy and spirited. He loved to play football on the beach when he visited relatives in Italy.
“Let’s just say he wasn’t the best player,” Vitetta said in a documentary on Infantino. “He was always lively and he enjoyed having fun and I remember his mop of red hair and his mother nicknamed him ‘little rebel,’ he was always good fun to be with.”..
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