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UEFA appoint Aleksander Ceferin to succeed Michel Platini as football organisation’s new boss at Athens congress

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September 14, 2016
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Ceferin, 48, beat Dutchman Michael van Praag, the only other candidate, by 42 votes to 13 to take the elite role.

ALEKSANDER CEFERIN has been appointed as the new president of UEFA.

Ceferin, 48, beat Dutchman Michael van Praag, the only other candidate, by 42 votes to 13 and will succeed Frenchman Michel Platini, who resigned in May after being banned from football for four years for ethics violations.

Ceferin is currently the head of the Slovenian FA.

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He is not a member of UEFA’s executive committee, and was little known outside his own country until he announced his intention to run in June.

President of the Football Association of Slovenia and candidate for the UEFA presidency Aleksander Ceferin speaks before the elections of the new UEFA President, at 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens, Greece, 14 September 2016. Michel Platini has been given permission by Fifa's ethics committee to address the Uefa congress in Athens despite his four-year ban from all football-related activity. EPA/YANNIS KOLESIDIS
President of the Football Association of Slovenia and candidate for the UEFA presidency Aleksander Ceferin speaks before the elections of the new UEFA President, at 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens, Greece. EPA/YANNIS KOLESIDIS

“I am not a showman, I have no ego issues and I am not a man of unrealistic promises,” he told delegates before the vote.

Each of UEFA’s 55 member associations had one vote in the election.

Ceferin’s immediate challenge is to heal the rifts in European soccer created by the secret deal to increase guaranteed Champions League places for clubs from the powerful leagues of England, Spain, Germany and Italy.

Ceferin is the seventh president in the 62-year history of UEFA.

“My small and beautiful Slovenia is very proud about, it and I hope one day you will also be very proud of me,” Ceferin told UEFA delegates.

Ceferin, who has never served on UEFA’s executive committee, tackled his apparent lack of preparedness for the presidency head on in his pre-vote address.

“Some people may have said that I am not a leader, that I am too young and too inexperienced to become the next UEFA president,” said Ceferin, a father-of three from Ljubljana. “It’s not because you repeat again and again, loud and clear ‘I am a leader’ that you are a leader. If you have to do it you are probably not a leader.”

Ceferin said combining running a law firm in Slovenia with leading the country’s soccer federation required him to be “creative, strong and inspiring.”

“You can say that I am young and experienced but I honestly think it disrespectful for all small and medium-sized federations who, 365 days a year, have to do more with less,” Ceferin said.

Newly elected UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia is seen on the screen after the announcement during the Extraordinary Congress in Athens, Greece September 14, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
Newly elected UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin of Slovenia is seen on the screen after the announcement during the Extraordinary Congress in Athens, Greece September 14, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

UEFA was forced to call the special election after Platini was banned by FIFA’s ethics judge last year for taking a payment of £1.5million (2 million Swiss francs) from the global governing body in 2011.

Despite being banned from holding any position of power or involvement in soccer, Platini was allowed by FIFA’s ethics judge to address UEFA delegates on Wednesday as a “gesture of humanity.”

“Be assured that I have a clear conscience, that I’m convinced I did not make the slightest mistake, and that I’m continuing the legal battle,” Platini told an audience which included FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

“I want to thank everyone in this room who had the courage and loyalty to support me during the past months.”

Emerging from his FIFA-enforced exile, Platini used the platform in Athens to highlight his achievements since assuming the UEFA presidency in 2007 and issue advice to the next head of European soccer.

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