Wednesday, June 3, 2015

NEWS: Blatter steps down as FIFA president

Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term.















The 79-year-old Swiss official, FIFA president for 17 years and only reelected on Friday, said a special congress would be called as soon as possible to elect a successor.

Blatter said that the scandal-tainted FIFA needs "profound reconstruction" and that he had "thoroughly reconsidered" his presidency since his reelection.

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