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Sponsors Want Blatter To Step Down From FIFA
- Consumerist, Monday, October 5, 2015 8 AM
Some of FIFA’s major sponsors are calling for FIFA's CEO Sepp Blatter to resign immediately, as he is being investigated for “suspicion of criminal mismanagement and suspicion of misappropriation” of FIFA funds. Sponsors that have spoken up are Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Visa, and Budweiser, all longtime sponsors: Coca-Cola has been one on and off since 1950. While the sponsors haven’t publicly threatened to back out of their deals, all condemned FIFA’s behavior and asked that Blatter step down immediately.
