Slovenian Aleksander Čeferin has been elected as UEFA's seventh president at the Extraordinary UEFA Congress which was held in Athens, Greece today. Out of 55, Čeferin received 42 votes from UEFA's member associations, against 13 votes for the other candidate, Michael van Praag (president of the Netherlands FA).

He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia on October 13th 1967. A graduate of Ljubljana University's law faculty, he went on to work for his family's law firm and developed a special interest in representing professional athletes and sports clubs. He later took over the role of company director. He was a member of the KMN Svea Lesna Litija executive board, one of Slovenia's most successful futsal clubs, as well as a member of the NK Olimpija from Ljubljana. He was elected as Football Association of Slovenia president two times - in 2011 and 2015.

Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina also gave its vote to Čeferin today, with whom we have extremely friendly relations. FFBIH representatives Elvedin Begic, Ivan Beus and Jasmin Bakovic were among the first who congratulated the new UEFA president.