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Blatter was a dead man walking on Friday night despite FIFA’s
electorate voting to retain him as president for another four years.Blatter,
severely wounded by the corruption scandals that have engulfed FIFA
this week, defeated a weak opponent in Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein of
Jordan by a much smaller margin than would have been the case before
Meltdown Wednesday.
After
an excruciating booth-style voting procedure lasting almost two hours
because the USA objected to an electronic ballot, Blatter emerged the
winner by 133 votes to 73. Although it was seven short of the two-thirds
majority needed for a first-round victory, Ali withdrew from the
contest.
Remarkably,
79-year-old Blatter still carried the day despite worldwide revulsion
over the length of the FIFA crime-sheet on his watch, the old rogue
saying: ‘I want to fix FIFA together with you, now, tomorrow, the day
after, and in the weeks to come, so I can hand over a strong FIFA. We
will start tomorrow morning. We have to build a better image and I know
how to do it. I cannot disclose it now but we will do it as of tomorrow
morning.
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