Blatter promised to leave the post of President FIFA within 9 months

The President of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) Zepp Blatter promised to resign from his post in 6-9 months. It is reported by TASS. The functionary explained that in the period from December 2015 to March 2016, the Emergency Congress of the Association will be convened. Blatter on it intends to announce a resignation.

“FIFA needs deep changes in the structure,” said FIFA President at a press conference. “My re -election was not supported by all subjects of football.” Therefore, he concluded, and it is necessary to convene an emergency congress as soon as possible, without waiting for the next one, which should go in May 2016 in Mexico City.

Blatter also recognized his responsibility for corruption scandals with the participation of FIFA functionaries. "We cannot be responsible for the actions of the confederations members, but we are responsible for everything that happens under the auspices of FIFA," said the functionary.

The 79-year-old Swiss Blatter has been heading FIFA since 1998. Once again, he was re -elected to his post only 4 days ago - May 29 . “I take the responsibility for FIFA to return to the old positions, and with you, I have no doubt, we will achieve this,” the functionary assured after the election. He also emphasized that FIFA has “some organizational problems”, but noticed that he would not “touch” the world championship due to the significance of this tournament.

Russia supported the candidacy of the current head of FIFA. Meanwhile, the president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini categorically opposed Blatter. Platini did not exclude that in case of re -election of Blatter, the European Association will boycott the World Cup .

Meanwhile, a number of football functionaries called for the transfer of elections after a scandal that shocked FIFA a few days earlier.

On the morning of May 27 in Zurich, the Swiss police arrested six FIFA functionaries . The arrests took place as part of the US authorities investigation of corruption and bribery in the leadership of the Federation.

According to media reports, 18 FIFA functionaries have been charged with corruption over the past 20 years around applications for the world championships, as well as fraud with marketing and broadcast transactions. In addition, they are charged with fraud, racketeering and laundering. The United States requires the extradition of football functionaries.

Later it became known that the Federal Department of Justice and the Switzerland police started a criminal case in connection with possible fraud during the procedure for choosing countries of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The FIFA headquarters searched with the seizure of documents.

The Guardian reported that in the case of fraud in the election of countries - housewives of the mundials of 2018 and 2022, it is also supposed to interrogate 10 members of the FIFA Executive Committee, including Vitaly Mutko , who is also the Minister of Sports of Russia. The official himself said that he did not receive a call for interrogation, but he would testify with pleasure, since he had nothing to hide.

Vladimir Putin, commenting on the arrests of FIFA functionaries, regarded them as another “obvious attempt” to extend his jurisdiction to other states . The purpose of the arrests in FIFA, according to Putin, is to "prevent Mr. Blatter to re -election to the presidency of the Association. He also stated that these arrests "are a gross violation of the principles of the functioning of international organizations."

Meanwhile, in the US internal income service - the country's tax department - on May 30 , they promised to bring a number of accusations to the defendants in the case of corruption in FIFA.