World media on Thursday demanded that FIFA’s veteran president Joseph Blatter step down following the shock arrests of top officials in the organisation suspected of corruption and fraud.
“He must go!” shouted the front page of the Le Matin daily in Switzerland, where FIFA is based and where its annual congress kicked off Thursday. “Blatter has no more credibility,” it added, a day after seven football officials were swept up in a police sting at a luxury Zurich hotel. Its compatriot Le Temps hailed the arrests as marking “an end to impunity” long enjoyed by international football’s main body.
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Source: Daily News & Analysis
