UEFA: Aleksander Ceferin (SLO) elected president by Congress (42 votes to 13 for Michael van Praag)

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Aleksander Ceferin, 48 years old, has been elected the president of UEFA at the 12th extraordinary Congress in Athens (GRE), on 14/09/2016. The 55 member federations have all taken part in the vote, and the Slovenian collected 42 votes against 13 for Michael van Praag (NED) in the first and only round of voting.

Aleksander Ceferin, a lawyer and...

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