
(ATR)On Tuesday, Sepp Blatter sent shockwaves throughout world football afterannouncing he will resign as FIFA president following an emergency extraordinary congress.
In this edition of ATRadio, World Football INSIDER editor and Around the Rings European editor Mark Bisson discusses the 79-year-old's announcement.
"Already people are talking about MichelPlatini," Bisson says of experts suggesting the president of the Union of European Football Associations could replace Blatter as FIFA president.
"He's the obvious frontrunner."
During the surprise press conference on June 2, Blatter said that FIFA will call an extraordinary congress "at the earliest opportunity" to elect a new president.
FIFA voted to re-elect Sepp Blatter for his fifth term at the helm of world football on May 29.
Earlier last week, the United States Department of Justice charged14 FIFA and sports marketing officials with a total of 47 counts of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering.
In a separate investigation, Swiss officials are looking into corruption that allegedly took place during the votes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
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