I don't have enough support says FIFA boss

He continued, "While I have a mandate from the membership of FIFA, I do not
feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football -- the fans, the
players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football as much as we
all do at FIFA."

Michel Platini, president of UEFA, European soccer's governing body, has
criticized Blatter in the past and told reporters last week that he had asked
Blatter to bow out of the elections. He was one of the first to react to the
announcement: "It was a difficult decision, a brave decision, and the right
decision."

Blatter won a fifth term Friday despite a week marred by arrests, investigations
in the United States and Switzerland and questions about whether he was the
man to rebuild FIFA's reputation.

Blatter failed to get the required 140 votes in the first round of voting to prevail.
Another round of voting was called, and because Blatter would need only a
simple majority to win the second, his rival, Jordan's Prince Ali bin al-Hussein,
conceded.

The president of the embattled organization will continue his duties until a new
president is elected, he said Tuesday.

Normally, the FIFA president is elected at the organization's World Congress,
the next one being scheduled in Mexico City on May 13.
Waiting until then to elect new leadership "would create unnecessary delay and
I will urge the executive committee to organize an extraordinary congress for the
election of my successor at the earliest opportunity."

As he won't be a candidate, he said, it will allow him "to focus on driving far-
reaching, fundamental reforms that transcend our previous efforts. For years, we
have worked hard to put in place administrative reforms, but it is plain to me
that while these must continue, they are not enough."