Pele is keen for Sepp Blatter to come forward and set
the record straight on FIFA.
Pele has urged Sepp Blatter to give an honest account of his
time in charge of FIFA as world football's governing body
continues to battle a corruption crisis.
Blatter was re-elected as FIFA president in May against the
backdrop of nine past and present officials being indicted for
racketeering conspiracy and corruption under an investigation
by US and Swiss authorities.
The 79-year-old subsequently announced his resignation and he
will leave his post later this year, although the suspension of
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke last week, pending a
formal investigation into allegations linking him to a scheme
intending to sell 2014 World Cup tickets for inflated prices,
continued a deeply troubled period.
Brazilian football icon Pele is a member of the FIFA's football
committee, which has not met for several years, and the slew of
negative stories surround the global game has upset the three-
time World Cup winner.
"I was invited to help FIFA, with Franz Beckenbauer, and we
worked together for two or three years, so it is very sad when
you see what has happened," Pele told Sky Sports.
"I don't know exactly what happened, you hear but you do not
know, but after what has happened in the last two years, he
[Blatter] deserves to be honest and say the truth of what he has
seen."
Among the FIFA officials taken into custody in Zurich earlier this
year was former Brazilian Football Federation chief Jose Maria
Marin and Pele called on his home nation to get its affairs in
order.
"This all happened after the last World Cup, when all Brazilians
were very sad [about the national team's defeat], and then you
have our representative in FIFA in this situation," he added. "So
we have to forget the last World Cup and clean up."
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