Swiss-Italian Gianni
Infantino was elected president of FIFA international football
federation on Friday.
The former UEFA secretary-general won with 115 votes in the
second round while rival Salman Bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa of
Bahrain got 88 votes.
In a speech in six different European languages - including
Italian, which he said is "the language of my parents, who
transmitted their values to me" - to the FIFA congress prior to
the vote, Infantino said "nothing happens by chance" and that
soccer-related earnings "were multiplied by three" during his
seven-year tenure at UEFA.
He also said a majority FIFA earnings should be
redistributed to the federations.
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