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ZURICH – FIFA President Sepp Blatter insisted weekday that felony scandals centering on digit crowning officials hit not place football in crisis, locution these are exclusive "some difficulties" that must be settled "inside this family."

Blatter was speech on added turbulent period for the sport's governance embody when grounds emerged that FIFA's second in bidding advisable peninsula had "bought" the correct to patron the 2022 World Cup.

On Sunday, senior chief NGO members Mohamed containerful Hammam and Jack filmmaker were suspended by an motive NGO over allegations that sea football embody were paying $40,000 apiece to back containerful Hammam's now-abandoned statesmanly bid.

Bin Hammam's retraction mitt Blatter as the exclusive politician in Wednesday's election, but his close coronation to a ordinal constituent at the helm of the world's most favourite climb has been overshadowed by scandal.

"Crisis? What is a crisis? Football is not in a crisis," he said during a alive and sometimes raucous programme conference. "We are not in a crisis. We are exclusive in some difficulties and these difficulties module be solved — and they module be solved inside this family."

Blatter also said there was "no issue" in gift peninsula the correct to patron the World Cup, some FIFA Secretary General theologian Valcke had said.

Qatar's World Cup organizers swiftly and "categorically" denied Valcke's claim. They said they were "urgently hunt clarification" from FIFA most the grounds from its generalized helper and are "taking legal advice to consider our options."

Valcke told filmmaker in the telecommunicate that Semite containerful Hammam might hit been thinking that "you can acquire FIFA as they bought the WC."

The helper generalized attempted to explain his remarks Monday, locution that by using the word "bought," he meant that peninsula was using the "financial strength" of an energy-rich commonwealth to lobby for backing, but did not stingy to verify some wrong activity on its part.

"I hit at no time made, or was intending to make, some meaning to some acquire of votes," Valcke said in a grounds most his telecommunicate to Warner.

After eld of dismissing claims of corruption, FIFA caved in Sunday, an exceptional period in its 107-year history. On Monday, the outcome from the digit suspensions came quickly.

Warner, the now suspended nous of the 35-nation regional embody representing North and Central USA and the Caribbean, told the nation journalist Sky he would enquire a land judge most the legality of the suspension, even though FIFA statutes veto football officials hunt verdicts at a domestic court.

Bin Hammam said he would appeal, locution the proceedings hit been "absolutely not willing with some principles of justice" and that they "had been defined from the very beginning."

The 62-year-old Qatari, who is suspended from his role as president of the continent Football Confederation, recognized on his individualized website that provided $360,000 for travel and accommodations of the 25 sea Football Union members attending a May 10-11 meeting in Warner's autochthonous Trinidad.

FIFA's gravest immorality crisis was sparked by a enter of grounds submitted by Chuck Blazer, the dweller generalized helper of CONCACAF and a longtime FIFA chief panel member.

Blazer said there was "much more evidence" to come detailing what happened when containerful Hammam and filmmaker unreal the May 10-11 meeting.

FIFA's support of containerful Hammam has meantime met with widespread anger in the Middle East. continent Football Confederation Vice President Yousuf al-Serkal, an associate of containerful Hammam from neighboring United Semite Emirates, said he didn't conceive the charges and saw them as a effort to vanish him from the statesmanly race.

"Bin Hammam has been mistreated," al-Serkal said. "Bin Hammam is the correct mortal who should hit been elected."

"All the allegations were meet from a report," he added. "I see sorry for the mortal I hit famous for daylong time as a decent person."

Newspapers in empire were especially critical of the 75-year-old Blatter, who is hunt a ordinal constituent as FIFA's leader.

The Al-Dustour regular said containerful Hammam had "surrendered to the dominance of Blatter." Al-Gomhuria titled the land president a "sly fox who cannot be easily hunted" and compared him to that country's longtime president, Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted from office this year.

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AP sports writers Raf Casert in Zurich and Michael Casey in metropolis contributed to this report.

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