REMARKS BY FIFA PRESIDENT BLATTER I have been reflecting deeply about my presidency and about the forty years in which my life has been inextricably bound to FIFA and the great sport of football. I cherish FIFA more than anything and I want to do only what is best for FIFA and for football. I felt compelled to stand for re-election, as I believed that this was the best thing for the...
35 See Levander Decl. Ex. 33, Sam Borden, Michael S. Schmidt, and Matt Apuzzo, Sepp Blatter Decides to Resign as FIFA President in About-Face, The New York Times (June 2, 2015),
After all, it was the same FIFA that elected Sepp Blatter to a new four-year term on May 29, 2015 right in the middle of new corruption allegations (theguardian.com). This brings us to the discussion of whether another layer of governance may help at all.
54. Ahongalu Fusimalohi: So you’ve got seven minus twenty four, fourteen. Reporter: Who are the seven? Ahongalu Fusimalohi: Well I would reckon the President. Reporter: I, e Sepp Blatter. Ahongalu Fusimalohi: Yeah, Blatter. The Oceania President, Reynald Temarii. Ahongalu Fusimalohi: Because, he cannot afford not to vote for, for Australia.
The present review of Blatter’s career covers the period from 1975, when he first joined FIFA, to the eruption of the FIFAgate scandal in 2015. Our analysis is divided into three main sections covering Blatter’s rise through the ranks of football administration, the management principles underlying what can be called the “Blatter system”, and the events that led to FIFAgate and the...