Sepp Blatter resigns as FIFA president
(AGI) Zurich, June 2 - Sepp Blatter announced his resignationas president of FIFA on Tuesday and said that elections for hissuccessor would be held as soon as possible. The surprisestatement from the 79 year-old Swiss came during a pressconference in Zurich, four days after his re-election by theFIFA congress and six days after the arrests of seven leadersof the federation at the request of the FBI. His number two,Secretary General Jerome Valcke, was believed to havetransferred 10 million dollars in 2008 to former vice presidentJack Warner, said U.S. federal prosecutors in