ZURICH — Gianni Infantino, a top administrator in European soccer, was elected president of FIFA, the sport’s global governing body, in an election here Friday. Mr. Infantino will replace Sepp Blatter, who announced his resignation just days after winning a fifth four-year team in May amid a growing corruption crisis.
Mr. Infantino defeated three other candidates, most notably Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, a member of Bahrain’s royal family who has faced questions about his involvement in the bloody crackdown of pro-democracy protests in his home country.
On the first ballot of voting, when a candidate needed 138 of the 207 votes to win, Mr.