Fifa has elected Gianni Infantino, a European football administrator born just six miles from Sepp Blatter’s birthplace, as its new president in a bid to restore the reputational damage wrought by his disgraced predecessor. For a candidate to win, 138 votes were needed for a two-thirds majority. But Infantino, who spent €500,000 of Uefa funds on touring the globe in the runup to the election, triumphed over the controversial Asian Football Confederation president, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, in the second round of voting by 115 votes to 88.Full post and final results after cut................
The final results were as follows;
Gianni Infantino - 115 votes
Sheikh Salman - 88 votes
Prince Ali al-Hussein - 4
Jerome Champagne - 0
Gianni Infantino - 115 votes
Sheikh Salman - 88 votes
Prince Ali al-Hussein - 4
Jerome Champagne - 0
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