Questions and answers, one day after the indictments of 14 soccer officials and marketing executives, including top FIFA officials, on corruption charges.
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u25a0 Sepp Blatter, the longtime president of FIFA, was keeping away from public view and declined to appear at a FIFA medical conference on Thursday. Instead, he led an emergency meeting with the leaders of the six regional soccer confederations. “There was a meeting today with the president with the representatives from the confederations to discuss the current situation,” a FIFA spokeswoman, Delia Fischer, said in a statement.
u25a0 The Asian, African and Concacaf confederations on Thursday expressed their support for Mr.