Gianni Infantino has always maintained in his campaign that he will win the votes and indeed he shocked the world by scoping 115 votes from the available 207 votes to win the right to become the president of FIFA.
The Uefa secretary general failed to get enough in the first round to seal outright victory, claiming 88 of the 207 votes available at an extraordinary congress in Zurich leaving Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa who has the backing of CAF with won 85.
In the second round though Gianni beat his opponent scoring 115 votes as opposed to the 88votes scooped by Sheikh Salman.Prince Ali wins 4votes while Jerome Champagne scored no vote.
In his acceptance speech, Gianni promised to work with all football associations to rebrand football.