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Sepp Blatter and the cronyism of FIFA

Martin Rogers of USA TODAY Sports discusses how Blatter again beat his competition to win a fifth term despite corruption allegations.

It would have been funny if it wasn't so sad, so ugly, so predictably full of cronyism and, you know, so darn looooong.

Sepp Blatter, playing the role of the cartoon villain, retained his position as soccer's global dictator on Friday as the collective of bureaucrats and administrators who control the world's most popular game showed once more how little they care for what those devoted fans think.