Pressure mounts on FIFA as key meeting gets underway

FIFA's leadership meets on Monday to decide the date of a vote to replace president Sepp Blatter as a corruption storm inflicts ever worsening damage on world soccer.

The meeting takes place just two days after Jeffrey Webb, until May a FIFA vice-president, made his first appearance in a New York court to deny charges that he accepted millions of dollars in bribes for marketing deals. He was released on $10 million bail.

Webb is one of 14 soccer officials and business executives facing charges in the United States. He was one of seven FIFA officials detained in a raid on a Zurich hotel ahead of the world body's congress in May. Two days later Blatter was re-elected to a fifth term but within four more days he announced he would organize a new election.