Asian Football Body Now Backs Infantino for Fifa President
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is a big group for football in Asia.
Fifa is the world organization for football. Gianni Infantino is the president of Fifa.
The AFC now supports Infantino for another term as president.
AFC president Sheikh Salman praised Infantino. He also hugged him.
This is a big change. Two months ago, the AFC did not support Infantino.
At that time, the AFC stood with two other football groups. These groups are called Uefa and Concacaf.
Uefa is the football group for Europe. Concacaf is the football group for North and Central America.
Those groups were against Infantino becoming president again.
Now the AFC has changed its mind. This is called a U-turn.
A U-turn means you change your opinion completely.
The AFC's new support is good news for Infantino.
Many people in football are watching what happens next.
Vocabulary15 words
- Confederation
- a big group of organizations that work together
- president
- the most important leader of a group
- Concacaf
- the football group for North and Central America
- U-turn
- a complete change of opinion
- endorse
- to say you support someone
- term
- a period of time someone has a job
- stance
- an opinion or position on something
- praise
- to say good things about someone
- hug
- to put your arms around someone
- turnaround
- a big change from one thing to another
- football
- a sport played with a ball and two teams
- organization
- a group of people with a shared purpose
- support
- to help or agree with someone
- change
- to become different
- group
- a number of people or things together
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1. The Asian Football Confederation 2. Sheikh Salman 3. False
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The _____ Football Confederation (AFC) is a big group for football in Asia.
Fifa is the world organization for football. Gianni Infantino is the _____ of Fifa.
The AFC now _____ Infantino for another term as president.
AFC president Sheikh Salman _____ Infantino. He also hugged him.
This is a big _____. Two months ago, the AFC did not support Infantino.
At that time, the AFC stood with two other football groups. These groups are called Uefa and _____.
Those groups were against Infantino becoming president again.
Now the AFC has changed its mind. This is called a _____.
A U-turn means you change your opinion _____.
The AFC's new support is good news for Infantino.
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