REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT British comedian known as Lee Nelson (unseen) throws banknotes at FIFA President Sepp Blatter as he arrives for a news conference after the Extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee Meeting at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland July 20, 2015. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter has seven months left at the top of world football’s governing body but his hope of putting the organisation’s troubles behind him before he goes looks forlorn.
Blatter, elected to the top position in 1998, will stand down on Feb. 26, the date FIFA selected for an "elective congress" to choose his replacement.
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