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New UEFA boss will face tough start as President with European football split over Champions League

For the uninformed, UEFA will be choosing a new president on Wednesday, whose primary task will be to stop what European authorities say is an inflexible slide towards a breakaway football Super League open just to richer clubs, like Real Madrid and Chelsea.

Slovenian Aleksander Ceferin, a legal advisor from Slovenia, and Dutchman Michael van Praag, an accomplished football director, are the men seeking election to replace the disgraced Michel Platini.

The victor’s primary task will be to keep European football in place in its present structure. The new president will take office on Wednesday and will immediately walk into a lot of mess and will have a lot of answering to do.