Platini calls on Blatter to resign

UEFA president Michel Platini confronted FIFA leader Sepp Blatter at an emergency meeting of football chiefs on Thursday and said he called on him to stand down because of corruption scandals engulfing world football.

Blatter refused and Platini made a public appeal at a press conference for member nations from around the world to vote against Blatter for the FIFA presidency in an election Friday.

"I asked him to resign: enough is enough, Sepp. He listened to me but he told me it is too late," Platini told a press conference.

"I say these things with tears in my eyes. I don't like it this way. But there are just too many scandals," he added.

Other confederation leaders did not back his call, Platini added.

Platini said he was "disgusted" and "sickened" by events which led to the arrest of seven FIFA officials at a Zurich hotel on Wednesday.