Sepp Blatter has resigned as president of FIFA as a mounting corruption scandal engulfed world football’s governing body.
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The 79-year-old Swiss official, FIFA president for 17 years and only re-elected on Friday, said a special congress would be called as soon as possible to elect a successor.
FA chairman Greg Dyke predicted Sepp Blatter “wouldn’t last two years” after re-election. Blatter lasted four days. #FIFA
— Bryan Swanson (@skysports_bryan) June 2, 2015
Blatter said that the scandal-tainted FIFA needs “profound reconstruction” and that he had “thoroughly reconsidered” his presidency since his re-election.
He added that the vote “does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football.”
His resignation came less than a week after Swiss police arrested seven FIFA officials, including two vice presidents, at a Zurich hotel.
Sepp Blatter said he would resign as president of FIFA in the wake of a corruption inquiry http://t.co/6B8WrLk0Co pic.twitter.com/wemvwDaAnV
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 2, 2015
The arrests were carried out on behalf of US prosecutors who accuse the seven, and eight other suspects, of involvement in $150 million of bribes.
