Another week, another FIFA story in the news. It's perhaps not altogether unsurprising that outgoing president Sepp Blatter looks to be reconsidering his decision to step down as FIFA president.
The long-serving president, Blatter won the recent election for FIFA presidency despite voices of discontent from UEFA and the FBI and Swiss investigation into corruption into football's governing body. Just days later, Blatter announced his decision to step-down from the presidency. Since then, he has been filling the role until the next president could be decided.
Now it's emerged that Blatter is having second thoughts about leaving the post he's held since 1998. The third longest-serving FIFA president addressed an audience at the opening of the new FIFA museum in Zurich joked (via The Guardian), that he was "not ready for a museum, or for a waxwork".
FIFA today confirmed the accuracy of the quotes attributed to Blatter in Swiss paper Blick:
I have not resigned, rather I am offering my mandate at an extraordinary congress.
Now the rumours that Blatter will go back on his promise to step down have been doing the rounds, especially after Blatter's former advisor suggested that that was a possibility. FIFA have since distanced themselves from that advisor Klaus Stoehlker. The FIFA official overseeing the choice of a new president has said that Blatter's departure was an "indispensable" part of the planned reforms to FIFA.
That said, it's a little curious that Blatter's resignation statement from three weeks ago has since disappeared from the FIFA website:
Still a bit strange that Blatter's 'resignation' statement on http://t.co/lvnlhUnJKn is currently unavailable: http://t.co/MNgYiwrnqT
— Martyn Ziegler (@martynziegler) June 26, 2015
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