UEFA admitted Kosovo as its 55th member in a narrow vote on Tuesday, boosting its hopes of competing in the 2018 World Cup despite warnings from former ruler Serbia.
UEFA’s member federations voted 28-24 to accept the former province of Serbia, which led the opposition. Two votes were declared invalid.
They also elected Florence Hardouin, the French soccer federation’s marketing director, as a member of its executive committee.
UEFA met without its president, Michel Platini, who should get a verdict next Monday from CAS in his appeal against a six-year ban by FIFA.
Platini and former FIFA president Sepp Blatter were sanctioned over a $2 million payment the former France great received in 2011 as uncontracted and backdated salary.
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