No second-round has been needed in FIFA Coins from mtnba2k's blog

No second-round has been needed in aFIFA Coins presidential election since 1974. That year, Joao Havelange of Brazil needed two rounds to defeat 13-year incumbent Stanley Rous of England.Infantino, like the 78-year-old Blatter, is from the Valais region in the Swiss Alps. He will be president until May 2019, completing the remainder of Blatter's term.Blatter, 79, won a fifth term last year but, amid the escalating corruption scandals, bowed to pressure four days after the election and said he would resign.



He was subsequently banned for six years for FIFA Mobile Coins financial mismanagement and was absent Friday after 40 years as a fixture at FIFA meetings."I congratulate Gianni Infantino sincerely and warmly on his election as the new president," Blatter said in a statement. "



With his experience, expertise, strategic and diplomatic skills he has all the qualities to continue my work and to stabilize FIFA again."Sheikh Salman was expected to lead the first round with backing from Africa and the Asian soccer confederation he has led since 2013.He also had behind him the Kuwait-based vote-gathering operation of Olympic power- broker



Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, his FIFA executive committee colleague, who sustained a rare electoral loss.Still, he had been the most criticized and scrutinized candidate throughout the campaign. The issue of Bahrain's human rights record was often cited by