ZURICH, June 2 (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term. Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials. (Reporting by Brian Homewood, editing by Mitch Phillips:)

hapa kenya hata sponsors wakitoka - kuna jamaa fulani who resorts to funding football activities from his personal bank account.

lakini hawa akina @kiash wakiamua hawakutaki, there is nothing much you can do, of course apart from the duo who have managed to somehow.

'Reforms instituted at FIFA werent enough'.
'FIFA to re-examine how it is structured'.

You cannot continue to hold that you didn't know about the corruption at FIFA. The $10M SA bribe was sent to his Deputy.

I hope the forced winds of change sweep this way. Sponsors always win..

Sponsors never win against FIFA. Grand corruption has been going on at FIFA since the 1970s with Joao Havalenge. But FIFA is so big and so important that sponsors never pulled out because they know there place will be quickly taken by another sponsor. What finally brought FIFA down was the long arm of the US Justice department especially the attornet general. Yaani Loretta Lynch, a black woman has the fate of these FIFA big wigs in her hands. It must be disturbing and disorienting.

Russia (read Putin), Afrika & Asia being cut to size. Football/Soccer has it's real owners. Sepp Blatter tried to empower these 3 in matters football and these are the consequences.

Blatter supported mediocrity in African soccer, giving akina Nyamweya money that he never cared how they used it as there was never accountability about. Wanyama was on TV yesterday and he said that from his experience in Scotland and England, the problem we got back home is football administration.......Blatter always thought otherwise, GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

......they paid FIFA VP for an approved project?

I have a certain admiration for Sepp Blatter. My opinion of him is of a man who wholly understands the human being and how the world operates and uses its momentum to achieve his ends which to most of the world is a good thing. He has broken a few rules to get his way but he has done well for FIFA.

If it were not for Blatter the World Cup would forever have been hosted in Western Europe and America. If all the rules were to be followed European or American style, South Africa or Brazil would never have hosted the world cup. Others may differ including some members of the host countries but it is my opinion that it was a good thing that they did. Looking at it from the perspective of a FIFA that wants to be a global body that hopes to spread the beautiful game all over the world to those who love the game and to treat them as equals, it has been a huge success.

I think the US is bitter from missing out on the opportunity to host a major global event and the fact that Russia is getting the 2018 World Cup while they failed to get the 2016 Olympics. I heard on a US radio station the presenter saying that US corporations like VISA and Coca Cola may be rethinking their sponsorship deals for the world cup because of this scandal I almost laughed out loud. They still think of the US and US companies as the most dominant in the world. They probably would but I would not be surprised to see the 2018 or 2022 world cup having their main sponsors being companies like Alibaba or Tata or Emirates. The further FIFA spreads its wings the less vulnerable they are to the dictates of any one company or country and I think Sepp Blatter understands this perfectly well.