Re-election of Sepp Blatter in Zurich as head of FIFA on Wednesday was a formality. He was the only candidate, and there is never a single outcome.
Blatter return to power for a period of four years with 186 votes out of 203, despite an English motion to halt the ballot, which was massively rejected by 172 votes against 17.
The motion to stop the vote came after a week of intense controversy for world leader of football, in which main opponent of Blatter employment torn in the midst of accusations of corruption.
Candidate Qatari Mohamed bin Hammam withdrew from the race on Sunday.
Immediately after his announcement, FIFA Ethics Committee him suspended from his position at the head of the Asian football Confederation.
Bin Hammam is under investigation for allegedly buying votes for what would have been his candidacy to the vote on Wednesday.
It is not the only Member accused FIFA of corruption.
Central America and the Caribbean of Football Association (CONCACAF) President Jack Warner was also prescribed by the Ethics Committee of FIFA for all Affairs of FIFA on Sunday, after the leaders of football Caribbean allegations were paid $ 40,000 each presidential Bin Hammam of the deceased.
In the wake of the charges, an embittered Warner released a private e-mail, that he had been sent by the Secretary General of the J?r?me Valcke FIFA, which seemed to suggest that Qatar had "purchased" the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
Sepp Blatter, however, appears to have weathered the storm of controversy.
"The ship of FIFA is in troubled waters - but this ship must be brought back on track," Blatter said in his speech opening Wednesday, adding that he was "Captain of the ship."
"It is my duty and responsibility to ensure that we get back on the rails," he said.
But if Blatter, who is part of the landscape of FIFA since 1975, 75 years can restore confidence in the sports world's richest association remains to be seen.
The son of a repairer of bicycle in the South of the Switzerland Visp, Blatter succeeded Brazilian Joao Havelange as President of FIFA in 1998.
Prior to joining FIFA, he had helped to organize the Olympic Games in Munich 1972 and was a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1999.
For the moment, the man who dreams to get the Nobel Prize for peace for his work in promoting sport has an uphill battle before him if he wants to achieve any type of tranquillity and confidence of world football.
"Because now it looks like a has been totally lacking transparency,"former editor in Chief of the French sports newspaper L'Equipe, Claude Droussent said to FRANCE 24."
"But it is a clever and determined man who is well placed to kickstart important reforms, such as how are selected for the World Cup host countries."
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