( CNN ) -- Sponsors of international soccer including Visa , Coca-Cola and Adidas have warned that an ethics scandal at the highest levels of the sport is hurting the sport and needs to be fixed . `` The current situation is clearly not good for the game , '' a Visa spokesman told CNN Tuesday , echoing comments from other companies that pay to have their logos at the World Cup and other major soccer events . The Visa spokesman declined to be named . `` The negative tenor of the public debate around FIFA at the moment is neither good for football nor for FIFA , '' Adidas chief communications officer Jan Runau told CNN Tuesday . FIFA President Sepp Blatter held an extraordinary press conference amid the scandal Monday night , insisting the organization was not in crisis after two top officials were suspended amid ethics concerns . Never mind Saint Sepp , the system is to blame . One of the officials , Mohamed Bin Hammam , was the only person running against Blatter for the presidency in an election scheduled for Wednesday . FIFA says the vote will go ahead on schedule , with Blatter as the only candidate . The powerful English Football Association called on FIFA Tuesday to delay the vote . `` This has been a very damaging time for the reputation of FIFA and therefore the whole of football , '' FA president David Bernstein said . The Scottish Football Association echoed the call . `` The events of the last two days , in particular , have made any election unworkable , '' SFA head Stewart Reagan said in a statement . Sponsor Emirates airlines said it was `` disappointed '' by the `` issues around the administration '' of FIFA , and Coca-Cola said Monday that the ethics allegations were `` distressing and bad for the sport . '' The concerns come as Blatter shrugged off allegations of corruption within FIFA Monday and said he would press ahead with his bid to be re-elected as president for the fourth time . Bin Hammam of Qatar was suspended by the FIFA ethics committee Sunday , along with fellow leading official Jack Warner . `` We are not in a crisis , we are only in some difficulties and these can be solved inside our family , '' Blatter told a press conference Monday where he was continually pressed on both his own position and wider allegations of wrongdoing within FIFA . `` FIFA is strong enough to deal with our own problems , '' he asserted when asked if he had considered postponing Wednesday 's vote by the 208-member FIFA Congress . FIFA is the body that decides where soccer 's quadrennial World Cup will be held , among other responsibilities . Blatter ruled out a new vote on the venue for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after a suggestion that it had won unfairly . `` There is no issue for the World Cup in 2022 , '' the 75-year-old Swiss said . `` I believe that the decision taken for the World Cup in 2022 was done exactly in the same pattern and in the same way as the 2018 tournament . '' Bin Hamman , who led the Qatar bid , said earlier Monday that he would appeal his suspension . `` I am punished before I am found guilty , '' Bin Hammam said in a statement , saying he would `` not accept '' the decision . Blatter , who was cleared by the ethics committee , did admit that the whole affair had affected FIFA 's reputation . `` What has happened in the last few days and week -- it has done great damage to the image of FIFA , '' he said . The press conference was conducted in an acrimonious atmosphere as frustrated journalists shouted out questions . `` We 're not in a bazaar here , we are in an important congress , '' retorted Blatter at one point . It rounded off an extraordinary day of accusation and counter accusation , with CONCACAF chief Warner the focal point . `` At the end of the day , Blatter has to be stopped , '' Warner , whose organization covers North and Central America and the Caribbean , told gathered reporters , clearly angered by his expulsion from FIFA 's executive committee . Warner also released an e-mail to reporters which implied that FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke believed there was corruption involved in Qatar 's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup . `` He thought he could buy FIFA as they bought the World Cup , '' Warner claims Valcke said of Bin Hammam in the e-mail . Qatar 's football association Monday `` categorically denied any wrongdoing '' in connection with its bid , and said it was consulting lawyers and `` urgently seeking clarification from FIFA '' about the alleged Valcke comments . Valcke , who is not accused of ethics violations and is not under any investigation , admitted sending the email , but said his comments had been taken out of context . Warner and Bin Hammam both deny wrongdoing . In a further puzzling development Tuesday , Warner apparently performed a U-turn from his previous position and urged his region 's members in an open lettter to vote for Blatter . `` At our last meeting we agreed as a Union to support the incumbent Joseph Sepp Blatter in his quest to regain the Presidency , '' Warner wrote . `` I wish to assure you nothing has changed - our mandate was set then and despite it all we must fulfil it . '' CNN 's David Wilkinson , Ben Wyatt , James Montague and Aaron Akin contributed to this report .
NEW : Sponsors of international football express concern about a top-level ethics scandal . FIFA president Sepp Blatter insists there is no crisis in world football 's governing body . TL;DR FIFA chooses who hosts the World Cup every four years .