Gianni Infantino elected FIFA President.

 On 26 February 2016 Gianni Infantino got elected as the President of FIFA.
•    He won after a second-round vote at Extraordinary FIFA Congress held in Zurich.
•    He is the ninth FIFA President.
•    In voting he secured 115 of 207 total votes. 
•    He will serve FIFA until 2019.
•    Infantino, the 45-year-old general secretary of European governing body UEFA, succeeded the 79-year-old Sepp Blatter, who held the position since 1998.
•    Sheikh Salman of Bahrain got 88 votes.
•    Prince Ali of Jordan got 4 votes.
•    Jerome Champagne of France got zero votes.
•    Greg Dyke, the Football Association chairman who had backed Infantino, hailed him as a “straightforward guy” whose victory was a new start for Fifa. 
•    Dyke said that England would now consider bidding for the 2030 World Cup.
•    Infantino, spent €500,000 of Uefa funds touring the globe in the run-up to the election.