FIFA president Joseph Blatter was on Thursday unanimously re-elected as the organization's president, according to dpa. There were no other candidates for the post at the congress and the 71-year-old Swiss was elected to his third term as president by clapping from the 208 delegates from the 208 member states. Blatter, who has headed football's controlling body since 1998, had previously said that he would only stand for two terms, but has since said he regards the fact that there were no other candidates as a vote of confidence. Nine years ago, Blatter beat former UEFA president Lennart Johansson in an election that was allegedly rife with vote-buying, while he won against the president of the African confederation Issa Hayatou five years ago. Blatter has always pushed for the social responsibility of football and is widely seen as being instrumental in bringing the World Cup to Africa. It will be hosted in South Africa in 2010. In his address to the congress, he said that it was FIFA's duty to take its social responsibility even more seriously as football is so popular and had so many resources available. "FIFA is now in a comfortable financial position and we have to use those resources. But that is not enough. Social responsibility begins with each and every one of us." In line with this, FIFA introduced a new logo: "For the Game. For the World." The organization said that the new slogan would take football's social responsibility and community take centre stage. "The slogan summarises FIFA's mission to develop the game, touch the world and build a better future," FIFA said in a statement. Blatter said that FIFA would continue to protects its autonomy. "Sport has be able to manage itself. We need to have the strength and the courage to accept that responsibility and to settle our own affairs. "Football is a game of the people for the people, a game with mistakes and errors. Let us defend the human face of football!" he said. Also at the congress Montenegro was accepted as the 208th member state of the body, with former football star Dejan Savicevic, who heads the new association, presenting the country's flag to FIFA.
