Blatter’s Departure Signals Sweeping Overhaul of Global Soccer

How Should FIFA Manage Crisis?

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Sepp Blatter’s sudden resignation threw wide open the future of world soccer.

Even as the drumbeat for Blatter to step aside intensified, he dug in his heels after winning a fifth term as FIFA president last week. Then, just four days later, the embattled 79-year-old hastily scheduled a news conference on Tuesday afternoon in Zurich to say he had had enough.