Sepp Blatter on Tuesday resigned as president of FIFA in a stunning capitulation to critics as a mounting corruption scandal engulfed world football's governing body. The 79-year-old Swiss official, FIFA president for 17 years and only reelected on Friday, calmly told a hastily arranged press conference that a special congress would be called as soon as possible to choose a successor.
"I felt compelled to stand for re-election, as I believed that this was the best thing for the organisation," he told a hastily arranged press conference at the organisation's Zurich headquarters.
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