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Čeferin elected as UEFA President: Armenia supported his candidacy

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Hood who did not want to call Sasna Dzrer group members ‘terrorists’ and was fired for it. I am a little skeptical about the second version,” she said. Slovenian Aleksander Čeferin has been elected as UEFA's seventh President at the Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens, UEFA said on its website. The 48-year-old Slovenian received 42 votes from UEFA's member associations, against 13 votes for the other candidate, Michael van Praag (Netherlands). Former UEFA President, Michel Platini, quit the organization last year over a FIFA bribery scandal. Today he tendered his official resignation. The Football Federation of Armenia supported Čeferin’s candidacy.