It took a bag of blood flown from the English city of Bristol to Switzerland to help save the life of a five-day-old Gianni Infantino. Almost 46 years later, exactly a week after being unexpectedly elected FIFA president, Infantino began his first foreign trip as head of world football by flying into Bristol. The poignancy was not lost on Infantino, who also received blood from Belgrade for the life-saving transfusion after being born with jaundice.
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