Sepp Blatter has announced that he will resign as president of football’s governing body Fifa, following the arrest of 14 high ranking officials on charges of bribery and corruption in the US.
Research has exposed corrupt practices within FIFA going back to the 1990s, but it took interest from the US, where football is still only emerging as a popular sport, for arrests to be made.
Some of Fifa’s largest sponsors have warned that they will reassess their future with Fifa following the arrest of sevem high-ranking officials on charges of bribery and corruption on Wednesday.
Fifa’s annual meetings are normally formulaic affairs where everything happens to plan: grand speeches are held, pats on the back…
Six Fifa officials have been arrested on corruption charges at the football governing body’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.