• New Fifa president Gianni Infantino arrives for a football match at Fifa headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland February 29, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
    New Fifa president Gianni Infantino arrives for a football match at Fifa headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland February 29, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
  • New Fifa president Gianni Infantino (L) fights for the ball with Deco of Portugal during a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
    New Fifa president Gianni Infantino (L) fights for the ball with Deco of Portugal during a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
  • New Fifa president Gianni Infantino shoots the ball during a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
    New Fifa president Gianni Infantino shoots the ball during a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
  • New Fifa president Gianni Infantino (C) plays the ball during a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
    New Fifa president Gianni Infantino (C) plays the ball during a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
  • New Fifa president Gianni Infantino (L) shakes hands with Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa prior to a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
    New Fifa president Gianni Infantino (L) shakes hands with Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa prior to a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
  • New Fifa president Gianni Infantino (L) fights for the ball during a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
    New Fifa president Gianni Infantino (L) fights for the ball during a Fifa Team Friendly Football Match at the Fifa headquarters on February 29, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)
  • Fifa’s new president Gianni Infantino faces the mountainous task of reforming and uniting world football, with a pile of crises from the scandal-ridden Sepp Blatter (pictured) era needing urgent action. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)
    Fifa’s new president Gianni Infantino faces the mountainous task of reforming and uniting world football, with a pile of crises from the scandal-ridden Sepp Blatter (pictured) era needing urgent action. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)

Fifa’s new president Gianni Infantino is already on the pitch – in pictures


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Fifa's new president Gianni Infantino has not been officially sworn into office yet but marked his first working day as president of football's world governing body by playing a friendly with a handful of international players along with Swiss-based Fifa employees.

The match symbolised a return of the primary focus of Fifa, that for some has been lost by the lavish living and corruption that culminated in the banning of Infantino’s predecessor Sepp Blatter.

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