The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) has congratulated Gianni Infantino on his outstanding 10-year leadership as President of FIFA.

This was disclosed in a Thursday statement published on the official CAF website, titled, “CAF congratulates Gianni Infantino on his outstanding 10-year leadership as FIFA President.”

CAF expressed that a decade of leadership at the helm of world football’s governing body sets the tone for a broader reflection from the African continent’s football authority on its relationship with FIFA during this period.

According to the statement, the CAF president praised the FIFA President, describing him as a loyal and trustworthy friend of the African Football and world football.

The President of CAF, Patrice Motsepe said, “CAF congratulates Gianni Infantino on the excellent leadership that he has provided as FIFA President over the past 10 years and for his enormous contribution to the development and growth of football throughout the world.”

“African Football and world football have a loyal and trustworthy friend and partner in Gianni Infantino.

“CAF wishes him good health and everything of the best,” he concluded.

Infantino was re-elected June 2019 by acclamation for a second term as FIFA president at the Congress of world football’s governing body in Paris.

Infantino, who took charge of FIFA in February 2016 following the departure of Sepp Blatter, is currently serving a four-year term that runs until 2027 after standing unopposed in the last election.

Infantino won the FIFA Presidency after a convincing win over Asian rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.

The Swiss-Italian general secretary of UEFA got 115 votes in the second round of the election held at the FIFA Congress while the Asian Football Confederation president got 88.

Infantino takes over thethen-209-member, multi-billion dollar body from Sepp Blatter with world football’s image at an all-time low.

Sheikh Salman, a member of the Bahrain royal family, was one of the first to congratulate his rival.

Having got 27 votes in the first round of the election, Prince Ali bin al Hussein of Jordan got just four in the second.