Blatter tells FIFA members they will survive 'difficult situation'

By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter, whose second-in-command Jerome Valcke was released from his duties on Thursday following allegations related to ticket sales, has told the organisation's members that they will "come through this difficult situation together". Blatter, who is standing down after the election of a new president on Feb. 26, wrote the message to FIFA's 209 member associations on Friday, a day after Secretary-General Valcke's departure following allegatio