Aleksander Čeferin, a Slovenian lawyer and football administrator, was born in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, on 13 October 1967. He had led UEFA skilfully through its early years following the body's birth in June 1954.The UEFA word, the UEFA logo and all marks related to UEFA competitions, are protected by trademarks and/or copyright of UEFA. He passed away on 4 June 2019 at the age of 89.Born on 30 May 1916, Mr Georges enjoyed a splendid career as a football administrator which spanned more than half a century, beginning in the Vosges region of eastern France in the late 1940s.
The constant development of UEFA’s club and national team competitions continued, with UEFA adhering to the belief that football should come first in all of its actions.Mr Platini resigned from his post of UEFA President on 14 September 2016.After gaining his initial administrative experience with AIK, Mr Johansson came through the ranks in the Swedish Football Association (SvFF), and served as the association's president between 1984 and 1991. He enjoyed a distinguished career as a player, captaining the France team that won the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship on home soil. In the event of a tie in any vote, the president has the casting vote.In carrying out these responsibilities, the UEFA President consults with the UEFA Executive Committee. After graduating from Ljubljana University's law faculty, Aleksander Čeferin worked for his family's law firm, developing a special interest in representing professional athletes and sports clubs… No. In 1968, he was the ideal person to take over the role of FFF President for a first term.Blessed with a deep understanding of the game and wider European issues, Mr Georges was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee in 1972. Establishing a reputation as a strong, capable leader, Mr Johansson was elected as UEFA's fifth President at UEFA's Malta Congress in 1990, and he held the position until January 2007.During his term of office, the face of the European game changed completely, in sporting and commercial terms. In a career spanning 501 matches, he scored 265 goals, and won the Ballon d'Or for European Footballer of the Year three successive times, in 1983, 1984 and 1985. European football was in a phase of construction and rapid expansion, as a result of the newly-created European club competitions, as well as the advent of television and improved travel across Europe.A committed European, Mr Wiederkehr saw his role as helping to consolidate and build up Europe's prominent position within international football. He played an active role in the development and modernisation of UEFA, in particular at a time of increased media coverage and heightened TV interest.Mr Georges was UEFA President during a time for European football when EU matters were occupying a wider stage through issues such as freedom of movement, and as security considerations became of paramount importance in the wake of the Heysel disaster in Brussels in 1985.The Frenchman helped lay the foundations for the modern-day UEFA Champions League, before stepping down in 1990 and returning to office with the FFF as the association's president, while also becoming Honorary UEFA President. UEFA-Präsident Michel Platini: "Nations League eine gute Entscheidung" | Nations League ab 2018 [5] des Schweizerischen Zivilgesetzbuches[6] und im Handelsregister eingetragen. Following his retirement, he was coach of the French national team from 1988 to 1992, before embarking on a career as a football administrator, both in France and at FIFA and UEFA.Michel Platini served as a member of the UEFA Technical Development Committee, before his election as a member of the UEFA Executive Committee in 2002. He later took over from his father as company director.Mr Čeferin took a formal interest in local football in 2005 through his work with the executive board of futsal club FC Litija. Zweite Amtszeit als Präsident Beim 43. UEFA itself developed from being a purely administrative body in a suburb of the Swiss federal capital Berne to a dynamic modern business enterprise based at the House of European Football in Nyon, on the banks of Lake Geneva in western Switzerland.While Mr Johansson was at the helm, the UEFA Champions League was launched at the start of the 1990s and turned into the world's most prestigious club competition, a blue-riband sporting and commercial event bringing together the best players on the planet and followed by millions of football enthusiasts.National-team football also flourished, with the UEFA European Championship final round growing into one of the most popular events on the world sporting calendar alongside the FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games. Der UEFA-Präsident wohnte im Dezember 2018 ferner der Unterzeichnung der Sponsoringvereinbarung mit VISA bei – der ersten, die ausschließlich für Frauenfußball abgeschlossen wurde. Die UEFA ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein[2][3][4] im Sinne der Artikel 60 ff.
Stadiums in Florence and Siena are named after him, as was the trophy for a competition played twice, in 1985 and 1993, between the European and South American national team competition champions.Born on 2 October 1905, Mr Wiederkehr took over the UEFA President's post at a critical time in the organisation's development. Astute, an intelligent negotiator and an innovate businessman in the carpet industry, he served as President for 10 years until his sudden death in summer 1972.Born in Copenhagen on 5 March 1901, Mr Schwartz was an expert in trade and commerce, and became a joint owner of his family engineering works and iron foundry company in 1931.He played as a goalkeeper with AB Copenhagen, but was to make his mark as a football administrator, serving as head of the Danish football delegation when the team won the bronze medal at the London Olympic Games in 1948, and taking the position of Danish FA President in 1950 – a position he was to hold until his death in 1964.Mr Schwartz served two four-year terms as UEFA President, before leaving the post in the spring of 1962 for a seat on the FIFA Executive Committee.