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Questions and Answers About the FIFA Case, One Day After

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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u25a0Sepp 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.

u25a0Both the Asian and African confederations on Thursday expressed their support for Mr.