Senior FIFA members who who had filed charges of corruption against president Sepp Blatter have withdrawn their legal action. And at an executive committee meeting this morning, FIFA general secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen was ousted by the governing body.
Blatter had wanted Zen-Ruffinen, the World Cup's chief organiser, to leave immediately, but friends
close to the president, fearing his immediate departure would throw the organisation of the World Cup into chaos, talked him out of it. Instead Zen-Ruffinen will leave FIFA on July 4 - four days after the World Cup final in Yokohama.
After his re-election victory, Blatter said he would deliver a plan to reorganise the organisation within 100 days. Sources say a major shake-up of FIFA is in prospect.
