Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as president of FIFA for another four years after winning the vote against challenger Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.
Blatter (79) had missed out on the required two-thirds majority in the first ballot - receiving 133 votes to his rival's 73 - but prince Ali took to the stage to withdraw before a second round could begin.
Delegates at the 65th FIFA congress in Zurich opted for Blatter despite widespread controversy that engulfed the event this week.
Seven FIFA officials, including vice president Jeffrey Webb, were arrested at dawn by Swiss authorities on request of the US justice department on Wednesday and are facing extradition to the United States on money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud charges.
Despite the arrests and alleged bribery which has taken place on his watch, Blatter had insisted that only a "tiny minority" of officials at FIFA were corruptible and has re-iterated his belief all week that he remained the man to lead FIFA out of its current problems.
Source: http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/4961/international-football/2015/05/29/12213002/blatter-re-elected-fifa-president?ICID=HP_HN_1
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