Post-FIFA Election Readings

"WE WILL RESTORE THE IMAGE OF FIFA."
The new FIFA President Gianni Infantino makes a pledge to the world of football, moments after his election.
Posted by FIFA on Friday, February 26, 2016

Yesterday Gianni Infantino was elected president of FIFA. ABove is a short video of him speaking after the election (courtesy @AlexStone7) Who is Infantino and what's next for FIFA? Here are some of the best post-election pieces I've come across. Feel free to add suggestions in the comments.

• From the always astute James Corbett: Infantino a safe pair of hands for wobbly FIFA
• James Dorsey describes the implications of Salman's loss: Bahraini’s soccer defeat: A cautionary tale for autocrats
• At World Football Insider, Mark Bisson has a nice overview of the election, the role of the US and CONCACAF and the reform agenda: How Infantino Won the FIFA Presidency - and What Next?
• At the Telegraph Paul Hayward gives a skeptical view: Welcoming Gianni Infantino as Fifa president requires ignorance, forgetfulness and hypocrisy
• Grant Wahl has a gushingly effusive piece about Sunil Gulati: USA's Sunil Gulati played a pivotal role in FIFA’s election outcome
• The AP reports that Infantino will receive less compensation than Sepp Blatter did -- (which is an easy target to undershoot)
• For all that, Infantino remains largely a cipher, as I suggested in my profile of him for Sporting Intelligence
• At least as important as who was elected are the nitty-gritty details of the reform agenda passed by FIFA. Gareth Sweeney of Transparency International explains
• And here is FIFA on FIFA reforms.

Lots more to come as FIFA takes on a full plate of reforms and its goal of restoring credibility.