Instead of heeding global calls for his resignation, Sepp Blatter, the head of the world's football governing body, firmed up his position after he was re-elected president of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) on Friday.
Amid corruption allegations hounding FIFA officials, the 79-year-old Blatter won another four more years as FIFA president after securing 133 votes from FIFA's 209 member nations during congressional meetings in Zurich last Friday.
Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, 39, challenged Blatter's 17-year reign as FIFA president, even forcing a second round of voting because the incumbent failed to secure a two-thirds majority vote in the first round.
The Jordanian prince, however, eventually withdrew from his bid for president, knowing that he had to switch some 31 votes from the FIFA member nations.
In his speech after winning his fifth term as the head of the world's football governing organization, Blatter declared, "I am the president now, the president of everybody... I am not perfect, nobody is perfect, but we will do a good job together I am sure."
"For the next four years, I will be in command of this boat called FIFA. And we will bring it back on shore," Blatter also said, in the face of controversies hounding the organization.
He also congratulated Prince Ali for what he described as an elections with a "good result."
Blatter's reelection came days after seven top FIFA officials were arrested in a post hotel in Switzerland over charges they are facing in the US for allegedly accepting bribes and kickbacks.
Following the uncovering of this controversy, the FIFA president faced calls to quit his post from influential people around the world, including British Prime Minister David Cameron. Cameron said Blatter should resign "the sooner, the better."
Blatter, however, refused to heed these calls, even questioning the timing of the arrests before the elections for FIFA president.
