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FIFA secretary general expects to leave with Blatter

Xinhua, July 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke expects Friday to leave his job after a new FIFA president is elected.

"Whoever becomes new FIFA president should have a new secretary general because it's the most important relationship," Valcke said here on Friday, one day ahead of the 2018 World Cup qualifying draw.

However, Valcke shrugged off the link with his responsibility for any wrongdoing in the crisis that has shaken the governing body.

"If I am responsible for what has happened this time, I don't think I am really involved," he said.

Valcke has served for eight years as FIFA's top administrator, while the governing body is now at the center of criminal investigations.

Four days after being re-elected to serve a fifth term as FIFA president on May 29, Blatter announced his departure from FIFA and will see his successor elected on Feb. 26, 2016.

"About my future, I would say at least I can have some privacy," Valcke said. Endi