Lennart Johansson

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Lennart Johansson (born November 5, 1929) is the president of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations since 1990. In April 2005 he was re-elected for a new two-year period, and he has announced that he will seek another four-year term. [1] He is also the vice-president of FIFA, and in 1998 he was a candidate to succeed Brazilian João Havelange as the organisation's president, but was defeated by Joseph Blatter.

Lennart Johansson is Swedish, lives in Stockholm and was the president of local football club AIK's football section until he stepped down in 2005.

  1. ^ "Johansson wants Uefa re-election", BBC Online, July 11, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.


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