ZURICH (Reuters) - He was introduced as "the elected president of FIFA" but the Sepp Blatter who sat in front of reporters on Monday, shortly after receiving an eight-year ban from soccer, appeared very different to the confident man who had led the sport's global governing body for 17 years.
Blatter looked pale and frail, unusually unshaven and with a plaster below his right eye; the tribulations of the past months, which had seen him suspended pending a FIFA ethics investigation and placed under criminal investigation in his homeland, seemed to have taken their toll on the 79-year-old Swiss.
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