Poland’s Boniek elected to UEFA Executive Committee
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Roberto Galea
05.04.2017 13:48
Zbigniew Boniek, the head of the Polish Football Association, was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee during its 41st Ordinary Congress in Helsinki on Wednesday.
Zbigniew Boniek. Photo: PZPN
Boniek will be the second Pole in history to be a member of European soccer governing body UEFA’s Executive Committee.
Poland's Leszek Rylski was a member of the committee from 1956 to 1968.
Other members elected to the committee during the congress are John Delaney (Republic of Ireland), David Gill (England), Reinhard Grindel (Germany), Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden), Michele Uva (Italy), Michael van Praag (Netherlands) and Servet Yardımcı (Turkey).
The UEFA Executive Committee is UEFA's supreme executive body. It comprises the UEFA President and 16 other members, including at least one female, elected by a UEFA Congress.
Sixty-one-year-old Boniek is a former football star, with an 80-cap career for the Polish national team.
He played in three consecutive World Cup tournaments, in 1978, 1982 and 1986. In 1985, he won the European Cup playing for Juventus Turin. (tf/rg)