Zurich, Aug 3: FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday relieved himself from the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ex-officio membership, seven months prior to being replaced as the head of world football's governing body.
Blatter would ordinarily have been re-elected for another eight-year term as a procedural matter at the ongoing IOC session in Kuala Lumpur along with more than a dozen other members, but would be required to stand down when he leaves FIFA at the end of February, reports stuff.co.nz.
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