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Blatter chairs emergency FIFA meeting as scandal grows

ZURICH, May 28 (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter chaired an emergency meeting with representatives from FIFA's six confederations on Thursday following the wave of arrests of football officials including two FIFA vice-presidents in Zurich on Wednesday.

The FIFA emergency committee rarely meets and two of its nominated members Jeffrey Webb, the president of CONCACAF and Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay, the South American confederation president, were not present as they were among those detained on Wednesday.

A FIFA representative said: "There was a meeting today with the president and the representatives from the confederations to discuss the current situation.