UEFA elected Aleksander u010ceferin as its new UEFA president on Wednesday, succeeding Michel Platini.
u010ceferin, 48, won 42 of the 55 votes at the Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens, beating Michael van Praag of the Netherlands.
He will complete Platini's four-year presidential term through 2019, after Platini resigned in May after he was banned by FIFA for taking a $2 million improper payment.
"Some people may have said that I am not a leader, that I am too young and too inexperienced to become the next UEFA president," Ceferin said. "It's not because you repeat again and again, loud and clear 'I am a leader' that you are a leader.