“This is good news for world football and not before time. Credibility and transparency have to come first. All who seriously advocate a reform of FIFA must now contribute constructive proposals for the unity of football. Sepp Blatter has done FIFA a great service by resigning. Renhard Rauball, president of Germany’s Bundesliga: In recent decades, FIFA has become just a machine for making money.” “Good news for soccer.Now we can say that we have cleared the way for effective change in world soccer. I hope that this great wave is enough to wash out all the corruption led by the world’s highest soccer authority.

All corrupt federation leaders around the world will feel their fall coming like a tsunami. The resignation of Joseph Blatter from the presidency of FIFA represents the start of a new era for world soccer. Romario, 1994 World Cup winner and now Brazilian senator:

It is clear that someone important got to him in the last few hours for him to make a decision of this kind.” Wilmar Valdez, Uruguayan Football Association president and vice-president of South America’s CONMEBOL confederation:

Diesel only the brave body wash