International football teams across Europe may pull out of the 2018 World Cup in Russia if Sepp Blatter is re-elected as the president of Fifa, the head of Uefa has warned, after allegations of “rampant” corruption going back decades failed to persuade the sport’s most powerful man to resign. As a series of major sponsors distanced themselves from football’s governing body, saying they had “profound” concerns about the gravity of the allegations it faced, Michel Platini said Uefa’s 54 member countries had not ruled out a boycott of future Fifa tournaments.Read more: Fifa corruption live blog “Uefa associations will meet in Berlin next week. We will be open to all options,” he said, adding...
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