No one was waiting for, but it fills fans with a clean football. The surprise resignation Tuesday of Sepp Blatter , the “godfather untouchable” Fifa is qualified this Wednesday, June 4 with the press of “great news” for world football.
Blatter “has disarmed. Four days just after his re-election as head of FIFA. Incredible bombshell caused by yet another revelation on Tuesday, aiming his own right arm, the French Jerome Valcke, “writes Martin Couturié in cracking the” Figaro “. “Last Friday, before Congress, he announced ‘more bad news’ coming soon. But his resignation is excellent for world football.”
position of this “president omnipotent”, in office since 1998, was “no longer tenable in view of the thickness of the enthroned records of American and Swiss offices of justices,” he said.
Unsurprisingly, the newspaper “L’Equipe” devotes its front page to the fall of Blatter with a picture we can see the future former FIFA president heading to an exit door, all decorated with the scathing title. “Cornered”
Sacred Blatter , we have been laughing all the way, “quips Michel Henry in” Liberation “under the title “Fifa Nostra.”
“20 Minutes” welcomes his side the departure of the former immovable Switzerland with a cheerful “Bye president!”
For Pierre Cavret in “Ouest-France” we just witnessed a “magnitude earthquake off category” in the world of “football business” ‘all crazy, all money “. Blatter thought he was “indestructible, invincible, indispensable” but in fact it makes an “exit through the back door” after “the pot too.”
“Only the ball is still spinning round”
A case that shows according to the columnist “sources of evil” in the football business ” the predominance of money, multiplied by the Pharaonic TV rights. Clean money but dirty money or virtual, when crooked middlemen and organized crime come into play during player transfers or laundering Toxic funds via the explosion of paris online sports. “
In this environment” plagued “marked by” scandals “and where” only the ball rotates yet round, now serves mere entertainment playground with insatiable appetites for power and money, “added Philippe Marcacci for” L’Est Républicain “. It is therefore not to be expected “that Augean stables are cleaned by the sport’s top leaders”
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The sponsoring untouchable “was finally” tackled by the judicial mechanical ruthless made in US. “
After the” fall final “Sepp Blatter , Patrice Chabanet advised his successor to” put sport at the center. “It is, he says, to” review thoroughly the operation of this financial behemoth what became FIFA. “
” It is only at this price, “he concluded,” that the institution will regain its lost honor in the maze corruption, suspicion and scandal. “
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