MLSZ welcomes election of Aleksander Ceferin as UEFA President

Slovenian FA head Aleksander Ceferin has been confirmed as UEFA’s new president at the European football governing body’s Extraordinary congress in Athens, Greece, today. Ceferin triumphed by a margin of 42 votes to 13 over Netherlands FA president Michael van Praag.

At a meeting in Budapest in August, the ‘Visegrad Seven’, a smaller working group of FAs from seven countries including Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Hungary, concluded that Mr Ceferin would be a wholly appropriate choice as president and therefore pledged their support to the Slovenian sport administrator in advance of today’s election.

“Happily, Aleksander Ceferin, a wholly suitable leader who can open a new period in this organisation’s life, has moved to the front of UEFA”, said Hungarian FA President Sándor Csányi. “The Hungarian Federation’s expectation is that with his work he will create a maintainable balance and unity with the involvement of European football’s participants and bearing in mind the interests of the member countries. It is important that Hungary, before anything else and as a representative of the smaller countries, brings to the forefront the question of the cases of support of young talent and women’s football”.

UEFA’s new president followed Mr Csányi by saying: “I thank everyone who stood behind me and supported me. I’d especially like to thank my family’s and Slovenia’s support – I know that all of them are proud of me and I honestly trust that one day you will be too”. It should be emphasised that MLSZ held it as important that as well as his preparedness as a leader, the prospective president would be capable of leading the organisation for a sizeable length of time.

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