With the votes of the Russians, Asians and Africans, the almost eighty-year-old Swiss Sepp Blatter has so far managed to avoid scandals and arrests and win the FIFA Congress which crowns him president for the fifth time. With 133 votes he surpassed the young Jordanian challenger, Prince Ali, supported by UEFA president Michel Platini, who obtained 73 votes and gave up the second vote.
According to the newspaper "La Repubblica", however, the vote of the talked-about president of the FIGC, Carlo Tavecchio, who, in the secrecy of the ballot box and despite the declarations on the eve, opportunistically supported Blatter, remains a mystery.
The FBI, which in recent days arrested two vice presidents and five senior Fifa executives for bribes and corruption, has already announced that the investigation is going ahead and that new arrests would soon be arriving.
Blatter's victory could therefore turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory but what is certain is the shame with which FIFA has covered itself in the eyes of the world.
