Joseph Sepp Blatter has today been re-elected as the President of the world football governing body FIFA for the 5th term.

Blatter saw off the challenge from Prince Ali Bin Al
Hussein of Jordan after a week which saw seven FIFA officials arrested and 18 people connected to football indicted on corruption charges by the US justice department.

Blatter won the first round by 133 votes to 73 and,
after Prince Ali decided to withdraw ahead of the
second round, the 79-year-old was installed as FIFA
president for another four years.

The outcome of the first-round vote meant Prince Ali succeeded in preventing Blatter from winning a two- thirds majority, but the 39-year-old pulled out of the contest rather than force a second round of voting. His supporters had been keen to get past the 70-vote mark as that would be seen to have delivered a bloody nose to Blatter.

The victory is also set to see further protests from
UEFA - the first action has come from David Gill, the
Football Association vice-chairman who will reject
the post of British vice-president as he does not want to serve under Blatter.

Gill will not attend the post-Congress executive
committee meeting on Saturday where a decision is
set to be taken on the allocation of World Cup places to each confederation.