Welcome, everyone, to The New York Times live blog of FIFA’s Extraordinary Congress. It’s extraordinary, of course, because of all that has happened to FIFA in the past nine months: arrests, the re-election of Sepp Blatter, his abdication days later, more arrests …. If you’ve been following our coverage, you understand the broad strokes. Today, Sam Borden, Rebecca Ruiz and I will walk you through the rest.
The election is quite literally hours away. But that does not mean what comes before is insignificant. (O.K., the “appointment of five members to check the minutes” is probably insignificant.) The full agenda for the congress is here.