Sepp Blatter Elected to Fifth Term as FIFA President

Story by Bloomberg
Written by Alex Duff and Tariq Panja

Sepp Blatter won a fifth term as President of FIFA, world soccer’s ruling body, two days after U.S. criminal charges targeted his inner circle.

The 79-year-old’s opponent, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, withdrew before a second-round vote. In the first round, Blatter outpointed Ali 133 to 73. He now gets four more years to head the not-for-profit group, which collected almost $5 billion from running last year’s World Cup in Brazil.

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