Sepp Blatter
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Joseph Sepp Blatter is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth President of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been banned from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of the FIFA corruption case made public that year, and will remain banned until 2027.
Blatter in 2015
Blatter (left) with João Havelange, President of FIFA (April 1982).
Blatter at Zurich Train station in November 2013
Blatter with Barack Obama and Jack Warner. In the vote for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, U.S. President Obama said that FIFA made "the wrong decision" in awarding Qatar the tournament in 2022.
2015 FIFA corruption case
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In 2015, United States federal prosecutors disclosed cases of corruption by officials and associates connected with the Fédération internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer.
Hotel Baur au Lac, Zürich, where seven FIFA officials were arrested on 27 May 2015
Media in front of FIFA headquarters after Blatter's resignation