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Friday, 26 February 2016

Gianni Infantino emerges as new FIFA President

Gianni Infantino has won the FIFA Presidential elections after getting majority of votes from all 207 FIFA member associations. He will be the FIFA President for the period of 2016 to 2019. He defeated Sheikh Salman, Priince Ali al-Hussein and Jerome Champagne.

The ExtraOrdinary FIFA congress and election which took place in Switzerland this afternoon went through the first round of voting, as a winner could only be determined if he won over 2/3 of the votes.

At the end of the first round, Prince Ali had 27 votes, Champagne 7 votes, Sheikh Salman 85 votes while Infantino had the highest with 88 votes.

For a candidate to win, 138 votes were needed for a two-thirds majority.

The final results were as follows;
Gianni Infantino - 115 votes
Sheikh Salman - 88 votes
Prince Ali al-Hussein - 4
Jerome Champagne - 0
at 2/26/2016 06:12:00 pm

49 comments:

  1. Roseberry26 February 2016 at 18:14

    Good for him.

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  2. STERN26 February 2016 at 18:14

    CONGRATS

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  3. Unknown26 February 2016 at 18:18

    Choi..
    Hwfa Jerome na.
    Didnt he pay...
    Lol

















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  4. Davido's driver26 February 2016 at 18:20

    Congrats

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  5. Okogba26 February 2016 at 18:20

    Congrats to him

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  6. Pearl26 February 2016 at 18:24

    Congratulations to him

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  7. Unknown26 February 2016 at 18:26

    Congrat to him hope his not a Muslim.




















    #sad indeed

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  8. baba26 February 2016 at 18:29

    Noted

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  9. Unknown26 February 2016 at 18:30

    Congrats to him...


    #FINEST

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  10. Unknown26 February 2016 at 18:32

    Congrats

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  11. Unknown26 February 2016 at 18:37

    * it's well*

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  12. Unknown26 February 2016 at 18:47

    Ok seen....congrats to him

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  13. Unknown26 February 2016 at 18:51

    Congrats to him!

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  14. Unknown26 February 2016 at 18:51

    Seen

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  15. Golda Awosika26 February 2016 at 19:02

    New blatter



    #*karlishah*

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  16. Unknown26 February 2016 at 19:07

    Congrats isi nkwocha.


    #LibBadBoy

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  17. Unknown26 February 2016 at 19:09

    Hope there will be change

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  18. eunymz26 February 2016 at 19:12

    Congratulations to him

    MZ EUEU

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  19. Unknown26 February 2016 at 19:14

    I know Africans had no chance in dis..congrats to him!

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  20. Unknown26 February 2016 at 19:16

    Congrats to him. Linda take note!

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  21. Unknown26 February 2016 at 19:17

    I knew he was going to win as long as he is from the European countries

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  22. Unknown26 February 2016 at 19:19

    Congrats

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  23. Unknown26 February 2016 at 19:20

    Good for him!

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  24. Unknown26 February 2016 at 19:23

    Congratulations man

    U concor


    #spritual

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  25. chommy26 February 2016 at 19:32

    Congrats to him. Linda observe!

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  26. NaijaDeltaBabe26 February 2016 at 19:33

    Congratulations to him


    ... Merited happiness

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  27. Psalmuelle aka Samstone.26 February 2016 at 19:37

    Good. I kind of like his name "Gianni Infantino" all the best to him.

    #LIB ADDICT#

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  28. Unknown26 February 2016 at 20:00

    Finally we push Blatter behind us. Since I was born I hv been hearing d name blatter

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  29. Unknown26 February 2016 at 20:08

    I pray he becomes the agent of positive change in the world's biggest football body. Fifa needs reformation.

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  30. Unknown26 February 2016 at 20:11

    Congrats to him

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  31. Unknown26 February 2016 at 20:17

    Congrats 2him

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  32. Unknown26 February 2016 at 20:33

    Congratulation to him may God help him to reform what as been damage by Blatter

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  33. Unknown26 February 2016 at 21:20

    Congrat to him hope he do his job well..LINDA OBSERVE CAREFULY

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    1. Unknown27 February 2016 at 00:21

      Gd for hm
      -D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

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  34. Unknown26 February 2016 at 21:28

    Big congrats to him.

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  35. businessanswers26 February 2016 at 21:53

    Congrat to him. I just hope the glory days of FIFA will be restored and things begin to move according to plan.
    www.sandalili.com

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  36. ike bobo26 February 2016 at 22:23

    No more corruption in fifa

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  37. Adaobikamma26 February 2016 at 22:54

    Congrats

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  38. Unknown26 February 2016 at 23:01

    Where is he from, hope not europe?

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  39. Anonymous26 February 2016 at 23:01

    What about the African,Tokyo

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  40. Unknown26 February 2016 at 23:22

    Congrats and let's hope FIFA will be reformed for real.

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  41. Unknown26 February 2016 at 23:23

    Congrats and let's hope FIFA will be reformed for real.

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  42. Unknown26 February 2016 at 23:38

    congrats to him. sorry platini after everything.

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  43. Unknown26 February 2016 at 23:56

    Happy for him

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  44. Unknown27 February 2016 at 00:03

    Congratulations to him

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  45. Unknown27 February 2016 at 03:59

    Ngwanu let's see how it goes, okwa na Hurt Seat ka ino.

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  46. Unknown27 February 2016 at 07:22

    Happy 4 him

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  47. owakah (A.K.A. Innosometin)27 February 2016 at 07:24

    CONGRATS

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  48. Luciana Chinda27 February 2016 at 19:45

    Congrats sir.

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