Blatter cancelled a scheduled appearance at a Fifa medical conference to hold an emergency meeting with representatives of all six continental confederations at the organisation's headquarters.
Welcome to all MLS fans, Confederations Cup refugees and those for whom watching the TV ticker bar of possible transfers to and from minor European teams and Premier League benches is no longer cutting it as entertainment.
The three men are accused of bribing officials at the Conmebol and Concacaf confederations for TV and marketing rights of continental tournaments.
"All these people came into Fifa from their own various federations and confederations.
The League's audacious land-grab elicited opposition from supporters, Fifa, Uefa ("a nonsense idea"), the Football Association, the Professional Footballers Associationn, most international confederations, the media, the government and Sir Alex Ferguson, who complained that managers had not been consulted.
Nor would backers of the growing anti-globalisation movement.Voters such as these would prefer Sergio Cofferati, until recently boss of the CGIL, the largest and leftest of Italy's three trade-union confederations.
Among Spain's 15m-odd employees, the two confederations together, the socialist UGT and the rather larger ex-communist CCOO, claim only 1.6m members; add in minor bodies that may support them, and the total is well under 2m.
Julian Lighton, in charge of corporate networks at the Silicon Valley office of McKinsey, a consultancy, notices that the incubators in which some start-ups begin life are becoming "semi-permanent keiretsu", or loose confederations, to share the costs of acquiring and managing customers and talent.
"Shared talent management" is the heart of these confederations, because the scarce talent of Silicon Valley prefers to work for a network of small companies that pool job opportunities.Dot.com or dot.corp Big, established companies often find it hard at first to respond to such competition.
Supposedly to develop football facilities, few questions were asked if some of the money failed to leave the pockets of Mr Blatter's fan-base.The membership of Exco, which votes in secret to decide which country will host the World Cup, is chosen by the continental football confederations: CONCACAF, the prime target for the FBI's digging, has three seats on Exco.
It is attacked from below by demands for devolution and from above by supranational confederations, such as the EU and NAFTA.
