Sepp Blatter won the election – but the criticism has persisted. On Tuesday evening announced Sepp Blatter that he sets his resignation.
It was a rapidly-called press conference that 79-year-old Blatter took the floor and left there somewhat shocking announcement:
– I’ve been thinking a lot. I won the election, but FIFA challenges remain. These years have been in close relationship with FIFA and the wonderful sport football. I like FIFA, more than anything else, and just want to FIFA and FIFA’s best. But despite that I was re-elected so have not my mandate supported by all, says Blatter.
– why I put my seat available. A new president will be elected at a congress as soon as possible.
Fifa has recently been accused of systematic corruption and a mutkultur. Several members of the Executive Committee is expected to be prosecuted. The FBI and the Swiss police say they both have evidence that the irregularities were behind VM applications. Despite the scandal succeeded President Blatter’s re-election last Friday – something that above all the European football association UEFA has been critical of.
The night of Tuesday, it emerged that claimed that Jerome Valcke, General Secretary of FIFA and Blatter’s right-hand man, will have been personally involved in money transfers that lay behind that South Africa was awarded the World Cup 2010. Something that probably got Blatter to finally make the decision to step down.
The vice president Domenico Scala also spoke at the press conference and said that under the circumstances there it was Blatter’s defection is the best thing that could happen. Scala also promised that FIFA will undergo profound changes associated with a new President shall be elected.
Something that according Scala will occur sometime between December 2015 and March 2016. Until a new president is chosen Blatter remained at his post.
The press conference was quickly over, and no questions were addressed to either Sepp Blatter or Domenico Scala.
The English Football Association FA’s chairman, Greg Dyke commented Blatter’s resignation with the following words: “He has stepped down. He’s gone. Let’s celebrate.”
The Swedish Football Association chairman Karl-Erik Nilsson told TT:
– Naturally surprising given that it was not many days since he was re-elected and then there was not this kind of signals.
Nilsson also says he feels “surprised but excited” about what is to come.
Even Sweden’s former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt, took the opportunity to comment on it all in a tweet in English, which translated read: “football politics is definitely something that is beyond me. But in this case I believe that regime change is probably for the better. “
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