FIFA President Sepp Blatter insists he has not resigned.

The Swiss announced that he would step down earlier this month in the wake of corruption scandals in football's governing body.

At the time Blatter said that he would not be a candidate in the new election.

According to a Swiss newspaper, he is now quoted as telling a party at a FIFA museum that, "I did not resign. I put my mandate in the hands of an extraordinary congress."

There have also been suggestions that the 79-year-old was mooting the possibility of running again.

During the June 2nd announcement, in which he suggested that he would step down after the next FIFA congress, he had not used the word 'resign', but had said: "I will organise extraordinary congress for a replacement for me as president. I will not stand. I am now free from the constraints of an election."