Robert Guérin

Robert Guérin was a French journalist and football administrator who became FIFA’s first president in 1904, helping establish an international governing body for association football.

Jules Rimet: A French football administrator who served as FIFA president from 1921 to 1954 and founded the FIFA World Cup. Rimet later led the organization Guérin helped establish.
FIFA: The international governing body for association football, founded in Paris in 1904. Guérin organized its creation and became its first president.
International football: Association football played between national teams or organized across national borders. FIFA’s creation gave international football a permanent coordinating body.
Daniel Burley Woolfall presidency: FIFA’s second presidential administration, led by Daniel Burley Woolfall from 1906 to 1918. Woolfall’s longer tenure followed Guérin’s short founding presidency.
Daniel Burley Woolfall: An English football administrator who served as FIFA president from 1906 to 1918. He succeeded Guérin and worked to unify international football rules.
FIFA founding congress: The meeting in Paris on 21 May 1904 at which representatives founded FIFA. Guérin convened the meeting that formally created the federation.
FIFA World Cup: An international association football tournament contested by men’s national teams every four years. The tournament became FIFA’s best-known later institution, long after Guérin’s presidency.
Jules Rimet presidency: FIFA’s presidential administration under Jules Rimet, lasting from 1921 to 1954. Rimet’s decades of leadership contrast with Guérin’s formative two-year term.
Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann: A Dutch football administrator who helped found FIFA and served as its secretary from 1904. Hirschmann was among the founding officials Guérin brought into the new federation.
Association football: A team sport in which players use their feet to move a ball and score goals, governed internationally by FIFA. The sport’s expanding international play created the need Guérin addressed.

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