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       Blatter to RESIGN
   DIR By: PWTRPWR
       Date: June 2, 2015, 2:25 pm
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       Sepp Blatter, FIFA's long-time president, announced on Tuesday
       that he will be resigning as soon as an extraordinary FIFA
       congress has elected a successor.
       
       Blatter had won a fifth term as president just last Friday and
       seemed to feel vindicated in two victory speeches, after yet
       another round of bribery scandals had beset him and his
       organization. A recent indictment by the U.S. Department of
       Justice had led to the arrest of nine of his close associates
       last week, and ABC News reported Tuesday that Blatter is, in
       fact, a subject of that continuing investigation.
       
       Sepp Blatter leaves after announcing he will resign as FIFA
       president. (AP)
       The sudden relinquishing of his iron grip on FIFA comes as a
       total shock to the soccer world, which had assumed Blatter would
       remain in power through the end of his new four-year term,
       extending his reign to 21 years. After defeating Prince Ali Bin
       Hussein 133-73 in the first round of Friday's election, the
       Jordanian challenger withdrew from the run-off vote. Blatter
       seemed to have once again consolidated his vast power, acquired
       over some four decades at the world's most popular sport's
       governing body.
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