Key parts of Ceferin’s manifesto included a pledge to tackle match-fixing and a more transparent bidding process for the Champions League finals and European Championships.
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New UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says he will make a review of the recent Champions League reforms his first priority.
“Either I want it or not, I will have to deal with it and that will be the first thing to deal with”.
Aleksander Ceferin has given no thought to the idea of making Michel Platini an honorary president of UEFA after being elected to replace the Frenchman as the head of Europe’s governing body.
The 68-year-old van Praag said the settlement was “negotiated by the UEFA hierarchy and ECA, not by me” but it was him who got ECA chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge to take the breakaway threat off the table.
Platini was banned from football in connection for what Swiss prosecutors described as a disloyal payment of some 2 million Swiss francs (2 million dollars) he received from then FIFA president Joseph Blatter in 2011 for work done as a FIFA presidential adviser a decade earlier.
For Ceferin, his immediate attention will be taken up by attempting to heal the rift in European football created by an alleged “secret deal” to increase Champions League places for the continent’s richest clubs.
Each of UEFA’s 55 member associations had one vote in the election.
Ceferin, who is not a member of UEFA’s executive committee, was little known outside his own country until he announced his intention to run in June.
Ceferin is the seventh president in the 62-year history of UEFA.
“It is a great honour, but also a great responsibility”, he said.
Earlier, Platini who was granted special permission by Federation Internationale de Football Association to address the Congress insisted that he had done nothing wrong.
Last month, Delaney publicly backed Ceferin to lead UEFA.
“Alex and myself have the same goal, look at our programs”, van Praag said. You can say that I’m young and inexperienced but I honestly think it’s disrespectful for all the presidents of small and medium-sized federations, who for 365 days a year have to do more with less.
“You are going to continue this wonderful mission without me, for reasons that I won’t go into”, added the former France and Juventus star.
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“Just simply know that my conscience is clear, that I am certain that I committed not the slightest fault and that I am continuing to fight legally”, the 62-year-old said.
