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[HairOfTheDog]

FIFA PRESIDENT STEPS DOWN

Huge news in the world of sports.

Sepp Blatter was re-elected for a record-breaking fifth term as president of FIFA on Friday, despite the indictments of bigwigs in the FIFA organization and organizational corruption allegations made by U.S. officials last week.


Well, yesterday the New York Times ran a piece exposing Blatter's number two and FIFA secretary general, Jérôme Valcke (^pictured, right, with Blatter).

Valcke is believed by U.S. authorities to have made transactions of $10 million. That money, it said, was part of a bribe in exchange for South Africa being awarded the host of the 2010 World Cup.

At today's press conference, Blatter said:
"I appreciate and love FIFA more than anything else, and I only want to do the best for football and for FIFA." Blatter said a new president will be elected "as soon as possible," but he will continue his functions until that happens. "What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner."

Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/sports....html?_r=0
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/3023726/images...rge570.jpg
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I wonder if Blatter will eventually be indicted himself? I also wonder, as all of these indicted execs start talking and trying to make deals, whether it will come out that Russia and Qatar bought their hosting honors for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.