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Blatter is out of IOC executive
Blatter is out of IOC executive. FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday relieved himself from the International Olympic Committee\'s (IOC) ex-officio membership, seven months prior to being replaced as the head of world football\'s governing body.
Zurich: FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday relieved himself from the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ex-officio membership, seven months prior to being replaced as the head of world football's governing body.
Blatter would ordinarily have been re-elected for another eight-year term as a procedural matter at the ongoing IOC session in Kuala Lumpur along with more than a dozen other members, but would be required to stand down when he leaves FIFA at the end of February, reports stuff.co.nz.
“Mr Blatter wrote me a letter on July 23 informing me that it would be inappropriate to seek another eight-year term as he was retiring from his position at FIFA in seven months when a new president will be selected on February 26, 2015,” IOC president Thomas Bach said.
The 79-year-old Swiss was re-elected for a fifth term as FIFA president here on May 29 but later announced that he would lay down his mandate in the wake of a crisis in FIFA. FIFA was thrown into turmoil two days ahead of its presidential election when more than a dozen officials and sports marketing executives were indicted by the United States on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges.
