Sepp Blatter
Sepp Blatter
Joseph "Sepp" Blatter is a Swiss football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFAfrom 1998 to 2015...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth10 March 1936
CityVisp, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
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Over a billion people will see this on television. Fantastic for Trinidad and the World Cup. The audience will go wild.
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We could not have 12,000 people on the pitch for the gala and then use the same turf for the match on June 12. The problem was that not a single provider would give us guarantees for the proper turf replacement. Nobody would give us these guarantees.
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I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard
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We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.
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Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.
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The FIFA World Cup is the perfect platform to send out this message to the whole world of football as people all around the globe will follow the 64 matches in Germany. The stars of the tournament will serve as role models for hundreds of millions of other players around the world. So it is all the more important that Germany 2006 sets a positive example.
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Football is hope for so many people around the world.
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Just like the rest of the international community, the worldwide football family is determined to do everything possible to help the individuals and football associations that have been so severely affected by the terrible tsunami tragedy.
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The 23 referees who will be in action in Germany are currently the best match officials in the world. That is the way it has to be as they will have a crucial role to play in this tournament and great demands will be placed on them.
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We will have a serious talk with them. Trust is good ? controls are better.
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We are close to a solution which will bring soccer tranquillity.
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We have been accused of all sorts of things, for example, in the fight against doping, when we were the ones who made headway first.
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We understand that the publication of images and text must be treated with the same approach for the sake of maintaining a transparent information management policy that respects freedom of the press.
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We need to start to deduct points from the team. It could also mean suspension. It could also mean exclusion.