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FIFA President Sepp Blatter to step down

FIFA President Sepp Blatter leaves the podium after announcing his resignation as head of the governing body of world soccer in Zurich, Switzerland, on June 2, 2015.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter leaves the podium after announcing his resignation as head of the governing body of world soccer in Zurich, Switzerland, on June 2, 2015.

  (Valeriano di Domenico / AFP/Getty Images)

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Embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced he would relinquish his post as the most powerful man in soccer on Tuesday, ending a 17-year reign atop the sport’s governing body that has been marked by scandal and corruption allegations.

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FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation at a news conference at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, on June 2.

  (Ennio Leanza / EPA)

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FIFA President Sepp Blatter shows off his dribbling skills at the inauguration ceremony for a training center in Guatemala City in 2002.

  (Mynor de Leon / AFP/Getty Images)

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FIFA President Sepp Blatter cuts a rope that allows a wrecking ball painted as a soccer ball to crash into a wall, marking the start of the construction of new FIFA headquarters in 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland.

  (Michael Probst / Associated Press)

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South African President Nelson Mandela awards his country’s Order of Good Hope to FIFA President Sepp Blatter in Johannesburg in 1998. South Africa hosted the World Cup in 2010.

  (Andreas Vlachakis / AFP/Getty Images)

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FIFA President Sepp Blatter, left, passes a soccer ball to Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014 during the official handover ceremony of the 2018 World Cup to Russia.

  (Alexei Nikolsky / Associated Press)

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