Blatter Confirms FIFA Exit as Favorite Platini Mulls Options
FIFA's Blatter Showered With Money at Press Conference
This article is for subscribers only.
Sepp Blatter will end his scandal-tainted 40-year association with FIFA Feb. 26, with Michel Platini favored to succeed him as president of soccer’s governing body.
“I will not run for re-election next year,” Blatter said at press conference in Zurich Monday that was delayed after a British comedian threw a wad of fake dollar bills at the 79-year-old.