Sepp Blatter has resigned as the president of Fifa, just four days after he won re-election for a fifth four-year term against the backdrop of the worst corruption scandal in the organisation’s history.
Mr Blatter, who presided over world football’s governing body for 17 years, said it would hold an extraordinary congress to elect his successor.
His resignation comes less than a week after US investigators alleged “rampant” corruption at the highest level of Fifa and indicted nine of the organisation’s officials, while Swiss prosecutors announced a criminal probe into the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.
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