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IN PHOTO: Re-elected FIFA President Sepp Blatter gestures during news conference after an extraordinary Executive Committee meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, May 30, 2015. Blatter has been re-elected as FIFA president for a fifth term after Jordan's Prince Ali bin Al Hussein conceded defeat at the Congress of world football's governing body on Friday. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke stated that FIFA president Sepp Blatter will be forced to resign due to controversies surrounding corruption scandal that has put the sport of soccer in bad light in recent days.

Despite the controversy, Blatter remained the head of the world governing body of the sport after another candidate, Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan withdraw from the race during the voting process.

Dyke believes that this is only the start of the scandal and that eventually Blatter will be forced to step down as FIFA president.

"I think he (Blatter) will be then forced to resign. If he had been head of any company, any organization where there was proper scrutiny, he would have gone," Dyke told reporters on Sunday via Reuters.

Investigators arrested seven FIFA officials on Wednesday in Switzerland including vice-president Jeffrey Webb. The investigation and eventual arrests were prompted by an investigation by the United States, which has uncovered a scandal being described as the worst controversy the sports’ governing body has had in its history.

"Look at what the Swiss authorities are doing. These are the Swiss authorities, not some small prosecuting authority from a small country -- this is the Swiss -- they are looking at what level of corruption was there into the awarding of that World Cup,” Dyke added in the interviews. "If they come out and say it was corrupt I don't think we will see a Qatar World Cup."

The bidding process and awarding of the World Cups in Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022 are both being investigated, according to reports.

"A third of the delegates voted against him which, given the amount of patronage he carries, is a remarkable number and the people who have voted against him are by and large the big nations, mostly in Europe and we're told the whole of Latin America,” Dyke also said about the FIFA presidency voting. "These are the two big footballing continents, they don't want him anymore, we don't want him anymore and there is nothing he can do to us."

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