Advertisement

Post Blatter's re-election, Coca-Cola urges FIFA to address issues

(Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co urged FIFA to take "concrete actions" to address the issues that have been raised, hours after Sepp Blatter was re-elected the president of the world football governing body mired in a corruption scandal. "FIFA must now seize the opportunity to begin winning back the trust it has lost," Coca-Cola, one of the major sponsors of FIFA, said in an email on Friday. Blatter was re-elected the president of FIFA for a fifth term as the only other candidate conceded defeat after a first round of voting in an election overshadowed by allegations of corruption in world football. (Reporting by Yashaswini Swamynathan in Bengaluru and Anjali Athavaley in New York; Editing by Kirti Pandey)