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		</div><p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="color:red;"><i>Gianni Infantino has become FIFA&#8217;s ninth president after being elected in Zurich on Friday and has promised to &#8216;restore a new era&#8217; to world football&#8217;s governing body.</i></span></span></p>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:large;">45 year old Swiss-Italian lawyer and former university administrator from the European Federation, UEFA, becomes the ninth head of the world governing soccer federation</span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:large;">The FIFA presidential election on Friday entered a second round of voting for the first time in 42 years after Infantino of Switzerland secured more backing than pre-vote favourite Sheik Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa of Bahrain in the first round, when a two thirds majority was required to win.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:large;">A simple majority of more than 50 per cent &#8211; 104 votes &#8211; was sufficient for victory in the second round.</span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>Former UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino becomes new FIFA president after beating Sheik Salman</b></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>Infantino said: &#8216;FIFA has gone through sad times, moments of crisis, but those times are over&#8217;</b></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter praises Infantino&#8217;s &#8216;experience, expertise and diplomatic skills&#8217;</b></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain finished well behind Infantino with 88 votes</b></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>Sheik Salman congratulates Infantino after his extraordinary victory at FIFA congress in Zurich</b></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">And Infantino secured 115 votes to Sheik Salman&#8217;s 88 to become the second successive Swiss president, after Sepp Blatter.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">The 45-year-old lawyer is from Brig in the Valais region of Switzerland, about six miles from Blatter&#8217;s hometown of Visp.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Blatter was first appointed in 1998 and had been voted in five times, including last May, but he stepped aside days later amid allegations which led to a six-year ban from football-related activity, which he is contesting.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">His resignation prompted the world governing body&#8217;s extraordinary congress in the most pivotal period of FIFA&#8217;s 112-year history.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">On Infantino&#8217;s appointment as FIFA president, FA chairman Greg Dyke, who supported the 45-year-old, told Sky Sports News: &#8216;I think he&#8217;s very hard working, and I think he would make sure it was properly organized, properly structured place.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;I think he will find a good chief executive &#8211; because that&#8217;s the crucial thing here, finding a good chief executive to run things.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;But I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s a politician, whereas we&#8217;ve just has a politician for many years.&#8217;</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Infantino will serve the remaining term of office for which Blatter was elected last May, meaning there will be a further election in 2019.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">He told congress: &#8216;Dear friends, I cannot express my feelings in this moment. I told you I went through a journey, an exceptional journey, a journey which made me meet a lot of fantastic people, who love football and breath football and live football every day.</span></div>

