Leonid Oleinicenco (born 14 December 1981) is a football administrator and Member of
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
. He was elected President of the
Football Association of Moldova
The Moldovan Football Federation ( ro, Federația Moldovenească de Fotbal, FMF) is the governing body of football in Moldova. It organizes all the football leagues, including the top-tier league Moldovan National Division (Divizia Națională), ...
in 2019, succeeding
Pavel Cebanu
Pavel Cebanu (born 28 March 1955) is a former Moldovan football (soccer) player. He spent his entire career, from 1973 to 1985, at the Moldovan side FC Nistru Chişinău. He was captain for many years and played 341 games scoring 45 goals.
He ...
.
Background
He started his career in 2009 with the
Moldovan federation as a finance director till 2015 and later was executive officer in 2015. In that year he enrolled at the
University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...
management study course after working for more than ten years.
His predecessor, Pavel Cebanu, was the president of FAM from 1997 until his retirement in 2019.
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People from Moldova Nouă
1980 births
Living people
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