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Slovenian lawyer and football administrator
Aleksander Čeferin is a Slovenian lawyer and football administrator. Between 2011 and 2016, he was president of the Football Association of Slovenia. Since September 2016, he has been the president of UEFA.
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Swiss football administrator (born 1970)
Giovanni Vincenzo "Gianni" Infantino is a Swiss football administrator who has served as the president of FIFA since 2016. He was previously Secretary General of UEFA from 2009 to 2016, where he formalised the body's financial regulations and oversaw tournament expansion, such as the UEFA Nations League. He has been an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member since 2020.
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The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is the governing body of football in Europe and one of FIFA's six continental confederations for association football consisting of 55 national associations. It runs national and club competitions for men and women, such as the Champions League, the Women's Champions League, the European Championship, and the Women's European Championship as well as the Nations League.
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The Man Who Said He Was Leaving Isn’t Leaving Aleksander Ceferin stood in front of delegates from all 55 of UEFA’s national associations in Berlin and told them what he had spent nearly two years insisting would not happen: he is staying on as president of European football’s governing body for a fourth term. The…
Aleksander Ceferin was first elected as Uefa president in 2016