FIFA: Sepp Blatter, 8th president, elected on 08/06/1998, suspended 08/10/2015, replaced 26/02/2016

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"I'm tired of being called 'the suspended president'. Now I am the former president and the suspension is useless," said, on 24/02/2016, Joseph Blatter, the FIFA president suspended from duty and from any activity in football since 08/10/2015.

"All the Congress stood to applaud me, it was great. It gave me goose bumps," he added in an interview...

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