On 2 June 2015 Sepp Blatter resigned as president of FIFA only four days after re-election. Mr. Blatter said “I have been reflecting deeply about my presidency and about the forty years in which my life has been inextricably bound to FIFA and the great sport of football. I cherish FIFA more than anything and I want to do only what is best for FIFA and for football. I felt compelled to stand for re-election, as I believed that this was the best thing for the organisation. That election is over but FIFA’s challenges are not. FIFA needs a profound overhaul.”
He then added “While I have a mandate from the membership of FIFA, I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football–the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football as much as we all do at FIFA.”
He will stay on as president until another is elected, probably next year at the next ordinary FIFA congress in Mexico City in May 2015.
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brunzlie says
Blatter is a smart cookie. he pretends to help the likes of Africa , the middle east (Qatar) Russia .Meanwhile he knows exactly that these people can be manipulated to give him and his “mates” a backhander (we make jokes how officials in Africa run around like penguins with their hands curled backwards permanently taking bribes). I live in South Africa and we are now landed with debt running into billions for the stadiums that were built for the 2010 World cup. African leaders are selfserving not “civil servants” it would be cheaper to demolish these stadiums than to maintain them. Sponsors could do themselves a favour to get the opinions of people on the street before funding these “white elephants”