At a press conference prior to embarking into yet another trip overseas, this time for Europe, President Luis Guillermo Solis of Costa Rica applauded the decision taken by embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter to relinquish his office amidst law enforcement investigations into high-level corruption and bribery.

President Solis explained that he was satisfied with the move since the sordid situation currently experienced by international football was getting worse with Blatter at the helm. The President of Costa Rica hopes that this matter, which ensnared Eduardo Li, president of our country’s football federation, can be solved soon so that football can once again be used as mechanism for peace building. In the meantime, the United States has confirmed that Blatter and FIFA continue to be in their objectives:

New York, Jun 2 (EFE).– Sepp Blatter, who announced Tuesday that he will step down as FIFA president, is being investigated by U.S. authorities in the corruption scandal tainting soccer’s world governing body, media outlets said.

“Now that people are going to want to save themselves, there’s probably a race to see who will flip on (Blatter) first,” a source familiar with the case told ABC News.

Along the same lines, The New York Times, also citing unnamed official sources, on Tuesday in its online edition reported that Blatter is being focused on by U.S. authorities in the corruption investigation.

The daily said that in their efforts to build a case against Blatter, who is Swiss, U.S. authorities are hoping to get the cooperation of some of the FIFA officials who were formally accused last week.

Blatter was reelected president of the organization last Friday, two days after the arrests of seven top FIFA officials in Switzerland at the request of the United States, who asked for their extradition to face corruption charges.

The 79-year-old Blatter said Tuesday that he will continue as FIFA chief until a new president can be elected, presumably in late 2015 or early 2016.

Jordanian Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, 39, whom Blatter defeated last week in the election for FIFA president, told CNN on Tuesday after learning of the soccer chief’s resignation that “I am at the disposal of all the national associations who want a change, including all of those who were afraid to make a change.”

Luis Figo, who a week before the latest election withdrew his candidacy in hopes of boosting Al-Hussein’s chances of unseating Blatter, said on the social networks that Tuesday was “a good day for FIFA and for football.”

The former Portuguese international, who did not confirm if he would again try to attain the presidency, called for a “new era of dynamism, transparency and democracy in FIFA.”

UEFA, the European soccer organization, and several of its member associations hailed Blatter’s announcement.

Support was also expressed for the current UEFA chief, former French international Michel Platini, to succeed Blatter. EFE