Sepp Blatter resigns as FIFA President

[Dback Jon]

Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term.

Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials.


http://news.yahoo.com/fifa-president-sepp-blatter-says-quit-164628917--sow.html

 

[Dback Jon]

Hopefully his next stop is jail

 

[Chaplin]

Ding dong the wicked witch is dead!

GREAT day for football.

 

[Lorenzo]

So what changed between a few days Ago and now.

 

[Dback Jon]

So what changed between a few days Ago and now.

He is in office until a special election is held - likely at the end of the year. This gives him a chance to try to get one of his guys into office.

So basically win the election, and keep control for another 6 months, and have a better chance to control who takes over.

 

[Chaplin]

He is in office until a special election is held - likely at the end of the year. This gives him a chance to try to get one of his guys into office.

So basically win the election, and keep control for another 6 months, and have a better chance to control who takes over.

Yep, it's all about not wanting his opponent in the election take power.

 

[cardfaninfl]

So what changed between a few days Ago and now.

Guessing it was one of two phone calls.

1. A phone call from Adidas saying they found another place to spend their money.

2. A phone call from the US DOJ saying they found another e-mail.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Holy hot damn. Great day!

 

[Stout]

He is in office until a special election is held - likely at the end of the year. This gives him a chance to try to get one of his guys into office.

So basically win the election, and keep control for another 6 months, and have a better chance to control who takes over.

Exactly. And why the need to wait for a special congress? There was a clear 2nd-place candidate who should be named president now.

 

[Phrazbit]

Exactly. And why the need to wait for a special congress? There was a clear 2nd-place candidate who should be named president now.

Because he was the only one that bothered to run against Blatter. He was 2nd place in a 2 man race. With Blatter gone a lot more people will likely step forward.

 

[cardfaninfl]

Because he was the only one that bothered to run against Blatter. He was 2nd place in a 2 man race. With Blatter gone a lot more people will likely step forward.

This makes sense. Most opinions were this election was always going to be more of a coronation formality than a democratic process. Now that King Sepp (who would keep the status quo) has abdicated the throne, we can hope to see candidates with opposing platforms debating the direction of a new FIFA.

Blatter's crime may not have been a direct involvement with corruption, bribes and lack of transparency, but his complacency towards keeping a broken system insured these crimes would continually get worse. His support of twisting an independent investigation to justify FIFA's actions, along with his recent comment suggesting the US criminal investigation was the revenge of a sore loser in the World Cup 2022 bid makes him culpable. Both of those actions are the typical psyche of someone who understands he owed his title to those who made FIFA a collection of extortionists.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

So what changed between a few days Ago and now.

He probably gets the salary for the full term.

 

[Chaplin]

Because he is still the sitting head of the organization, he will have input on who takes over. That can be a big problem, but hopefully cooler heads will prevail.

 

[MadCardDisease]

It all depends on who ends up replacing him. I won't get excited till we know who the new president of FIFA is.

 

[MadCardDisease]

"God Bless America"

By indicting 14 top Fifa officials on corruption charges on Wednesday, however, the US government currently finds itself on the right side of much of the international media.

Football commentator Simon Hill of Fox Sports Australia is even more direct.

"God Bless America," he writes "It's perhaps the ultimate irony that one of the last countries on earth to fully embrace football is the one that has had the gumption to take a stand, and try and rid the game of what the US Department of Justice calls 'systemic' corruption."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32909908

 

[Kel Varnsen]

USA! USA!

https://twitter.com/WaltHickey/status/605778064778391552

 

[Chaplin]

 

[dreamcastrocks]

It all depends on who ends up replacing him. I won't get excited till we know who the new president of FIFA is.

I'm excited because that arrogant SOB is out of there.

 

[Stout]

Because he was the only one that bothered to run against Blatter. He was 2nd place in a 2 man race. With Blatter gone a lot more people will likely step forward.

Nah, it's hogwash. He clearly wanted to have a huge say in his successor. If the recent pressure made Blatter want to resign, why bother staying in it to win it in the first place? Step aside and let the other candidate be elected. No, Blatter CLEARLY is manipulating events here.

 

[Lorenzo]

Good points made by all. Lin just glad that he is leaving. His arrogance got the best of him. He should have resigned long ago and moving fwd Fifa needs to limit terms.

 

[cardfaninfl]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/20/sepp-blatter-fifa-dollar-bills-press-conference-lee-nelson

Sepp gets pranked at his news conference.

 

[Chaplin]

And in other news, Vladimir Putin says that Blatter deserves the Nobel Prize. You can't make this stuff up.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33684831

I guess that's his thank you for giving his country the World Cup.

 

[Zeno]

And in other news, Vladimir Putin says that Blatter deserves the Nobel Prize. You can't make this stuff up.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33684831

I guess that's his thank you for giving his country the World Cup.

Wow.

 

[Dback Jon]

Wow.

No kidding.

 

[Ronin]

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