UEFA’s Gerhard Aigner
Keeping order in European football is quite a business
THE man handing out the medals under the stadium lights is the official face of European football: Lennart Johansson, the Swedish president of UEFA, its governing body. But the figure in the background handing them to him is no gofer: he is Gerhard Aigner, UEFA's German chief executive. The two together make a strong team. And they are not here in Milan, at the final of UEFA's annual Champions League, for the champagne.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “UEFA’s Gerhard Aigner”
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