Infantino triumphs with American help as FIFA blocks break down

By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - The United States played a key role in the intense lobbying that saw Gianni Infantino elected FIFA president on Friday, beating Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, as the old political allegiances at world football's governing body collapsed. The traditional voting in blocks along continental lines, characteristic of previous FIFA elections, broke down significantly giving outsiders Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan and France’s Jerome Champagne 34 vot