STOCKHOLM (REUTERS) - Lennart Johansson, a Swede who presided over European football for 17 years as its new Champions League turned into a global classified ad juggernaut, has died after a rushed illness aged 89, Sweden's football association said upon Wednesday (June 5).The president of European football governing body Uefa from 1990 to 2007 was a driving force behind the formation of the Champions League, giving the continent's top club competition a new identity, a catchy anthem and worldwide reach.Later the similar day, former Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino was re-elected Fifa president unopposed at the congress of world football's governing body in Paris, as he claimed to have turned the organisation from brute "toxic and more or less criminal" back up to its core values. His re-election was marked by a round of approval from the congress after the statutes were misused earlier in the hours of daylight to no longer require a vote if there was lonely one candidate for the position.The 49-year-old Swiss-Italian lawyer now has a four-year mandate to attempt and attain his grandiose plans for football which were partly enraged in his first term.He has been in feat of Fifa in the past February 2016, after succeeding Sepp Blatter in the wake of a damaging tarnishing revulsion that Infantino claimed the body had now shaken off. Johansson's reign at Uefa had seen huge revenue streams flow into the continent's huge clubs, turning Manchester United, Barcelona, real Madrid, Bayern Munich and others into multi-billion dollar enterprises, and their players into global megastars."World football will be always be grateful to him for every he has achieved for the lovely game," Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said in a statement.The Swedish FA said Swedish football was in mourning.Johansson took over the top job in European football at a turbulent time gone money from television coverage was flooding into the sport and players gained unqualified liberty to upset surrounded by countries and clubs in Europe."It was not a unqualified that Uefa would be successful in meeting every these dramatic changes," the Swedish FA said."The Champions League became an huge success, but Lennart Johansson's new major realization was finding a fragile credit surrounded by the huge clubs' demands and the needs of the broader football family."Johansson ran adjoining Blatter to head football's world governing body Fifa in an acrimonious vote in 1998 but lost. The Swiss, who led Fifa for 17 years, is now serving a six-year ban from football for dishonorable conduct.The men remained rivals. The Swedish FA quoted Johansson as saying: "It is my 20-year fight gone Blatter that people like."Blatter's successor, Infantino, who worked earlier in his career under Johansson at Uefa, called the Swede "a pal and an invaluable source of intelligence and inspiration"."Lennart has always been a role model of professionalism and, more importantly, of humanity," he said.In 2007, Johansson stepped the length of as Uefa president after brute beaten in an election by former France international Michel Platini. Johansson was unqualified the title honorary president, a role which he took seriously, even attending meetings in his wheelchair.Johansson was a lifelong fanatic and honorary president of Stockholm club AIK.In Paris, Infantino said Fifa's in the past precarious financial matter was now looking bright gone the organisation's budget increased from US$5 billion to US$6.4 billion (S$8.73 billion) and reserves going on from US$1 billion to US$2.75 billion.This was despite increased spending upon press on projects in Fifa's 211 fanatic associations. Fifa spent US$1.1 billion in the time 2015-18 and will mass the sum to US$1.75 billion from 2019-2022, he added.
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