Platini elected new EUFA President

Duesseldorf (Germany): Michel Platini of France was voted in as president of UEFA on Friday.

Platini, 51, defeated the Swedish incumbent Lennart Johansson, 77, by 27 votes to 23 in a poll of national Football Association presidents at the UEFA Congress.

Johansson had been in charge of European soccer's governing body since 1990.

Platini, three times former European Footballer of the Year, becomes the first high profile former player to hold such an important position in soccer administration.