Alexey Leonidovich Sorokin (Russian: Алексей Леонидович Сорокин; born on 5 April 1972), is a Russian football administrator who was a member of the FIFA Council until 2021. From his previous career, he was the secretary general and general director of the

Russian Football Union The Russian Football Union (russian: Российский Футбольный Союз, ''Rossiyskiy Futbolnyy Soyuz'' or RFS) is the official governing body of association football in the Russian Federation. With headquarters in Moscow, it org ...

and helped to organize the

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final in Moscow in 2008. In 2011, he was appointed as the CEO of the Local Organizing Committee for the

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, after working on the Bid Committee in 2009. In September 2017, Sorokin was elected to FIFA Council as the Extraordinary

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