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FIFA sponsors call for Blatter's immediate resignation─── 09:42 Sat, 03 Oct 2015
New York - Top FIFA sponsors have joined forces to demand Sepp Blatter's immediate resignation.
AFP reports in separate statements issued one week after criminal proceedings were launched against Blatter in Switzerland, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Visa and Budweiser all called on the 79-year-old to step down.
In a statement issued by his US lawyer in reaction to the sponsor demands, Blatter defiantly vowed to remain in office.
Swiss prosecutors say Blatter is the target of a probe into "criminal mismanagement" at FIFA, focusing on a 2005 television rights sale to the Caribbean Football Union and a payment of $2 million made in 2011 to European football chief Michel Platini, the frontrunner to succeed him.
AFP
