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Q&A: What's ahead for FIFA after week of turmoil

GENEVA (AP) A lame duck president who can't travel freely and a top administrator suspended and placed on leave.

If any global sports body can defy such dysfunction, it is probably Sepp Blatter's FIFA.

Meanwhile, senior soccer officials wonder when and where the U.S. Department of Justice's promised next round of arrests will come.

Jerome Valcke might welcome a break from his job as secretary general after being suspended and put under an ethics investigation for his alleged part in a proposed World Cup black market tickets deal.

His less flamboyant deputy, Markus Kattner, a German finance expert who is unlikely to drive a white Ferrari like Valcke, takes on a promotion - at least until the Feb.