Only two nominees — four-time incumbent Blatter, who has been FIFA president since 1998, and current FIFA Vice President for Asia, Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan — are running for the FIFA presidency. Several new FIFA members, including South Sudan, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe received FIFA approval ahead of the Friday election to cast their votes.
Blatter won 133 votes, while Prince Ali gained support of 73 members at the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich on Friday.
On May 27, the US Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging 14 defendants — among them nine senior FIFA officials — with racketeering, money laundering and taking about $150 million in bribes. Seven of the FIFA defendants were arrested in Switzerland on a US federal corruption warrant.
