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How the Hell Did Sepp Blatter Win?

Re-Elected

Easy: bribes. Just ask the people who took them.

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LONDON — Hey, FIFA delegates, what first attracted you to human ATM Sepp Blatter?

The president of soccer’s governing body was comfortably re-elected Friday in the midst of FIFA’s greatest crisis in more than a century.

Just two days ago, seven of FIFA’s highest ranking officials were seized by plainclothes officers in...

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