Robert Guérin

Robert Guerin (born 28 of June 1876, † 1952) was on May 22, 1904 to June 5, 1906 the first president of the world football governing body FIFA.

Robert Guérin initiated the French Association des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Union Athlétiques as secretary of the football department, the foundation of the world football association. As a journalist, he published in 1903 in the newspaper Matin calls to the continental federations to organize a football's governing body. Belgium and France contributed on 1 May 1904 in Brussels, the first official international game. This opportunity took Guérin, to meet with the Belgian Verbandssektretäre and advise the founding of FIFA. Robert Guérin then took the initiative and invited the interested organizations establishing a meeting.

He was elected on the first FIFA meeting in Switzerland, on 23 May 1904 the first president of the newly formed Football Association. Many organizations, mainly from Europe came at the FIFA and Guérin was re-elected by the FIFA Executive Committee in the following year. However, in the coming years were increasing problems. The first planned international competition was not held. Above all, the French Federation was split staff. This prompted Robert Guérin to withdraw more and more from the labor force. He left more frequently the tasks his vice president Victor Schneider. For being voted the Congress in 1906 in the Swiss capital of Bern, he was no longer present, but was represented by his vice. As the new President of the Englishman Daniel Burley Woolfall was chosen.

Robert Guérin | Daniel Burley Woolfall | Jules Rimet | Rodolphe William Seeldrayers | Arthur Drewry | Sir Stanley Rous | Joao Havelange | Sepp Blatter

• Man
• Football functionary (France)
• President ( FIFA)
• Born 1876
• Died in 1952