Blatter faces months of troubles before departure

ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter has seven months left at the top of world football’s governing body but his hope of putting the organisation’s troubles behind him before he goes looks forlorn. Blatter, elected to the top position in 1998, will stand down on Feb. 26, the date FIFA selected for an "elective congress" to choose his replacement. FIFA’s answer on Monday to the corruption scandal that has engulfed it since the arrests of senior officials in May on U.S. fraud and m