Sepp Blatter goes after successor Gianni Infantino

It has been exactly five years since the football world was shaken again. Sepp Blatter, who had previously headed FIFA for 18 years, made his office available as President.

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Under pressure from the USA, as the Valais now admits. The American judiciary was after the World Football Association. Blatter says to the Keystone-SDA news agency: “They said: ‘The head has to go!’ Then I gave my mandate – and suddenly FIFA was no longer a mafia organization for the US judiciary, but a victim. »

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Blatter resigned and was banned by the Fifa ethics committee for eight years, and he was also fined CHF 50,000. The ban was later reduced to six years.

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As is well known, his successor also became a Valais: Gianni Infantino. Nothing has improved for Blatter since then. “He wants to make football a huge money machine,” says the 84-year-old, and is thus addressing the expansion of various tournaments. A World Cup with 48 countries, an increase in the Women’s World Cup (now 32) or the big Club World Cup with 24 teams from all over the world, which should have taken place this year for the first time, but did not do so due to the Corona crisis Was postponed in 2021.

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Infantino wanted to make everything bigger from the start. «But that is not possible. You can no longer digest that, »Blatter continues. His statements go so far that he accuses his successor of plotting to remove him, Blatter, from office. Former Uefa boss Michel Platini was also a victim of Infantinos.

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“World Cup 2022 should be in the United States”

The Frenchman is suspected of having sold his vote for the 2022 World Cup. Blatter: “Fifa wants to play the World Cup there in order to maintain the appearance of normalcy.” He himself voted for the United States, not for Qatar. «You could suddenly play this World Cup in England, Germany or Japan. Or in the United States. It should be the USA, because they were second in the selection. »

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Either way. Blatter’s suspension still takes around one and a half years. Given his past and his now advanced age, it somehow seems almost impossible that he will ever return to football in any function. Others have now taken over the business. Also a Valaisian, with whom Blatter seems anything but satisfied … (red)

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