Sepp Blatter resigns as president of FIFA

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Sepp Blatter, who led world soccer’s governing body for 17 years and had just won re-election for a fifth four-year term, resigned his position at a hastily called news conference in Zurich on Tuesday evening in the wake of an international corruption inquiry.

In a short speech delivered at the headquarters of FIFA, which oversees global soccer, Mr. Blatter said that “FIFA needs a profound restructuring” and that he had decided to step away from the organization for which he had worked in various positions for 40 years. Mr. Blatter, 79, who spoke in French, then referred to his recent re-election by FIFA’s 209 member nations when he said, “Although the members of FIFA have given me the new mandate, this mandate does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football.”

Mr. Blatter’s resignation is not immediate; according to Domenico Scala, the independent chairman of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee, who spoke to the news media after Mr. Blatter, a special meeting of FIFA’s member nations will be called to elect a new president. According to FIFA’s rules, there must be at least four months’ notice given to members for such a meeting, so Mr. Scala indicated that the likely window for a new election is from December 2015 to March 2016.

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Fucking finally. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

 

[Prince Bálor]

Good.

 

[Bort]

10 years too late. I wish there's an ISIS for dealing with corporate crooks.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

FIFA will surely be corruption free now

 

[BradR]

I think there's still some corruption going on. Yes, there will be less since Blatter is gone but it'll never be gone. There will always be someone trying to ruin things.

 

[Pop Tatari]

Has anyone heard about that United Passions film a story about Fifa funded 90 percent by them, came out at the same time as this scandal,

Personally platini is dodgy as well.