Humiliated Blatter says only FIFA Congress can bar him

By Silke Koltrowitz ZURICH (Reuters) - Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday he believes that only the Congress of football's governing body, and not its Ethics Committee, can bar him from office. Comparing himself to a state president, Blatter told Swiss broadcaster SRF: "If one wants to revoke an elected president, only parliament can ask for that." In a tense interview, Blatter declined to comment on whether FIFA's ethics investigators had recommended he be handed a life ban