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FIFA President Sepp Blatter abruptly announces resignation
79-year-old was re-elected to 5th term Friday on heels of corruption crisis
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter attends a news conference following the FIFA Executive Committee meeting Saturday in Zurich, Switzerland. - photo by Ennio Leanza
ZURICH — FIFA President Sepp Blatter will resign from soccer's governing body amid a widening corruption scandal and has promised to call for fresh elections to choose a successor. The 79-year-old Blatter was re-elected to a fifth term on Friday, two days after a corruption crisis erupted and seven soccer officials were arrested in Zurich ahead of the FIFA congress. "This mandate does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football," Blatter said Tuesday at a hastily arranged news conference.
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