Dutchman Michael van Praag, Spaniard Angel Maria Villar and Slovenian Aleksandar Ceferin confirmed as UEFA candidates

Dutchman Michael van Praag, Spaniard Angel Maria Villar and Slovenian Aleksandar Ceferin will contest the presidency of UEFA in September, European soccer’s governing body confirmed on Friday July 22,2016

UEFA said the trio, all heads of their country’s respective football federations, were the only candidates to have submitted their bids by Wednesday’s deadline for the election in Athens on Sept. 14,2016

The election has been called to find a replacement for Frenchman Michel Platini, who has been banned for four years for ethics violations.Mchel Platini was banned, along with former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, over payment of 2.0 million Swiss francs ($2.02 million) made to the Frenchman by FIFA with Blatter’s approval in 2011 for work done a decade earlier. He has denied wrongdoing