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Blatter sees himself as hero even as he steps down

USA TODAY Sports Martin Rogers discusses Sepp Blatter's decision to resign as President of FIFA amid scandal.

Even at the moment of his final defeat on Tuesday, Sepp Blatter couldn't give up the bluster and the spin and that insufferable habit of painting himself as the hero of the hour.

Blatter is going, going and soon to be gone as president of FIFA, no longer able to either idly sit by while soccer's governing body wreaks mass-scale corruption or directly involved in it himself, depending on who you believe.