Ignacio Alonso

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.

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. a position for which he is officially elected the following month. He is also elected to the FIFA Council in 2019.

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.