Michel Platini has been re-elected as UEFA president until 2015, vowing to battle the scourges of violence in stadiums and match-fixing.
The 55-year-old former France captain, who has been in the post since 2007, was re-elected unopposed at the UEFA Congress in Switzerland on Tuesday.
His policies of opening up European club competitions to lower-ranked teams and toughening financial rules on clubs to crack down on reckless spending have made him popular amongst member nations, and Platini vowed to continue to fight to reduce crowd violence.
There is no place in football for those who transform passion into violence and pride into sectarianism, Platini said.
Every country should establish a whole battery of legal measures enabling them to ban hooligans…