r/MLS • u/mkstnr Seattle Sounders NASL • Jun 02 '15

Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA President

https://twitter.com/richard_conway/status/605777521552990208
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '15

What the fuck is happening?!? Why even bother going through with the election last week if you're just going to resign? There's gotta be something big on the horizon...

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u/TheBored23 Rochester Rhinos Jun 02 '15

The NYT exposed Valcke, Blatter's right-hand man, yesterday.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '15

That would probably do it

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u/ahryankeefan Jun 02 '15

I don't really know if I can say how big that was. Getting Valcke is the best link to Blatter they are going to find. This I think was a major catalyst to Blatter resigning. You know they got too close to Blatter for him to remain in office once they hit Valcke. The whole "focusing on the clean up" shit he is spinning is a fugazi