Blatter Losing Caribbean Support in FIFA Election, Delegates Say
(Bloomberg) -- Les Murray, a retired soccer broadcaster and former member of the ethics committee at FIFA, talks about the corruption scandal at the sport's governing body. U.S. prosecutors plunged FIFA into crisis, charging nine officials with corruption as Europe's largest soccer federation called for postponing this week's election for the organization's president, Joseph "Sepp" Blatter. Murray speaks from Sydney with Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television's "Trending Business." (Source: Bloomberg)
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has lost support among some heads of Caribbean soccer associations a day before his re-election bid, delegates from those countries said.
The shift by the Caribbean voters, who traditionally have backed Blatter, is due in part to the FIFA president not voicing support for their regional leader, Jeffrey Webb, after his arrest this week in a Zurich raid, presidents of the Grenada and Barbados soccer associations said Thursday.