After so much pressure from around the world of soccer , the longest serving president fifa has resigned .


The president of 17 years has stepped down in light of the corruption scandal sweeping through the world governing body

Sepp Blatter has announced he will step down as president of Fifa, calling an extraordinary congress "as rapidly as possible" at which a successor will be selected.

The Swiss announced his decision at a hastily-arranged press conference on Tuesday after his secreatry-general Jerome Valcke had earlier been implicated in the US Department of Justice's investigations into a $10m payment to indicted former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner.


Source : goal.com