Top FIFA sponsors on Friday joined forces to demand Sepp Blatter’s immediate resignation, dealing a fresh blow to the scandal-tainted world soccer chief even as he vowed to cling to power. In separate statements issued one week after criminal proceedings were launched against Blatter in Switzerland, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Visa and Budweiser all called on the 79-year-old to step down. It marked the first time that FIFA’s powerful financial backers — who together have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the organization through...
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