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Former president of Argentina appointed chairman of FIFA Foundation

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Getty Images | The FIFA Foundation's mission is to promote positive social change, mainly through education, and it has undertaken to raise $1 billion to invest in educational programmes.

Mauricio Macri, who served as the president of Argentina from 2015 to 2019, has been appointed as chairman of the FIFA Foundation, which aims to promote positive social change through educational programmes.

Macri also formerly served as the president of Boca Juniors for a 12-year period.

30 January 2020 - 7:55 AM

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