Four days after his re-election as President of FIFA Sepp Blatter has resigned without giving any creditable reason why he wanted to leave !
Suspicion has increasingly surrounded Blatter for the last 15 years. He has left a ship which he called FIFA, while it was sinking and while he was at the helm, but it can now be rescued.
Nothing has ever been crystal clear with Blatter, but with all the ongoing investigations there are probably some things which have come to a head during the last four days.
It has regularly been stated that Blatter was "clean", that he was not party to any of the scandels or suspected frauds now being closely examined in Switzerland and the USA. However, there is one thing he did want to avoid : the publication of the original "Garcia Report" .
Last December the Eckert Summary of this Report was severely criticised by Garcia and he then promptly resigned from FIFA. He said it did not reflect correctly the conclusions in his Report. To calm the general reactions, Blatter promised to publish a "redacted" version but without saying when ! This "redaction" was never published ! Why ?
Perhaps a copy of the Garcia Report has got into the hands of the American Prosecutors, because they now want to question 14 FIFA Executives ? As a result of their investigations, do the American Prosecutors perhaps now know more about what was going on in FIFA, than Blatter himself ever did ? Or was he "aiding and abetting" his close team of "cronies" ?
One thing is certain, there are still many more episodes to come on this story !
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