Media reports in the US say that FIFA president Sepp Blatter is being investigated as part of the inquiry into corruption allegations facing the football world body.
Blatter who lead world soccer’s governing body FIFA for 17 years resigned as president on Tuesday.
He made his announcement in Zurich as law enforcement officials in the United States confirmed that he was a focus of a federal corruption investigation.
Sources say Blatter faced a lot of pressure which would have been a big obstacle for him at the helm had he stayed in control of FIFA.
Blatter’s resignation speech, which he delivered in French to a mostly empty room at FIFA headquarters, served as a stunning end to a dramatic or some would say crazy sequence of events that began last Wednesday.
Early Last week police raided a five-star hotel, where seven soccer officials were arrested and held for extradition to the United States on corruption charges.
The former Fifa vice-president, Jack Warner, current vice presidents Jeffrey Webb and Eugenio Figueredo, and the former president of Concacaf, Nicolás Leoz, were among those arrested last week on charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering conspiracies.
Last week, after his re-election, Blatter said: “The Americans are making investigations they have right to do so, I have no concerns, I especially have no concerns about my person.”
