{"id":26045,"date":"2016-02-27T05:08:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T05:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26045"},"modified":"2016-02-27T05:08:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T05:08:06","slug":"gianni-infantino-becomes-ninth-fifa-president-to-succeed-suspended-sepp-blatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26045","title":{"rendered":"Gianni Infantino becomes ninth FIFA President; to succeed suspended Sepp Blatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-26044\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gianni-Infantino-FIFA-President.jpg\" alt=\"Gianni Infantino FIFA President\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gianni-Infantino-FIFA-President.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gianni-Infantino-FIFA-President-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Gianni Infantino has been elected as the President of FIFA for the remainder of the current term of office (until 2019) by the Extraordinary FIFA Congress held in Zurich. He was elected as the ninth FIFA President after the second ballot with 115 of 207 total votes. In line with the FIFA Statutes, the mandate of the new FIFA President started after the conclusion of the Congress.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the proceedings, it was confirmed to the Congress that 207 FIFA member associations were entitled to vote (the member associations of Indonesia and Kuwait could not vote due to their respective suspensions). The candidate Tokyo Sexwale withdrew from the election after his address to the Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the Extraordinary FIFA Congress approved a set of landmark reforms to FIFA&rsquo;s governance structure, including improvements to the governance of global football, a clear separation of commercial and political decision-making, greater scrutiny of senior officials, and commitments to women in football and human rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results of the elections for the office of FIFA President:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ballot 1:<br \/>HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein: 27 votes<br \/>Shk. Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa: 85 votes<br \/>J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Champagne: 7 votes<br \/>Gianni Infantino: 88 votes<\/p>\n<p>Ballot 2:<br \/>HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein: 4 votes<br \/>Shk. Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa: 88 votes<br \/>J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Champagne: 0 votes<br \/>Gianni Infantino: 115 votes<\/p>\n<p>pic courtsey: twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-26044\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gianni-Infantino-FIFA-President.jpg\" alt=\"Gianni Infantino FIFA President\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gianni-Infantino-FIFA-President.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gianni-Infantino-FIFA-President-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Gianni Infantino has been elected as the President of FIFA for the remainder of the current term of office (until 2019) by the Extraordinary FIFA Congress held in Zurich. He was elected as the ninth FIFA President after the second ballot with 115 of 207 total votes. In line with the FIFA Statutes, the mandate of the new FIFA President started after the conclusion of the Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13688,15249,12975,15247,15248,15250,15251,964],"class_list":["post-26045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-fifa-news","tag-fifa-presidential-election","tag-football-news","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-president-of-fifa","tag-prince-ali-bin-al-hussein","tag-salman-bin-ebrahim-al-khalifa","tag-sepp-blatter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gianni Infantino becomes ninth FIFA President; to succeed suspended Sepp Blatter - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26045\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gianni Infantino becomes ninth FIFA President; to succeed suspended Sepp Blatter - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gianni Infantino has been elected as the President of FIFA for the remainder of the current term of office (until 2019) by the Extraordinary FIFA Congress held in Zurich. 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