Happy Birthday Sepp Blatter
We hope that all of you fair readers join World Cup Blog in raising your glasses in a toast to FIFA president Sepp Blatter who turns 70 today. Blatter has worked with FIFA for 31 years, helping to make the international organization into the wonderfully corrupt and adorable pet it is today. We tried to reach Mr. Blatter by phone today to get his thoughts on turning the big seven-o, but he was not in his office. Out golfing, perhaps?
Fortunately an enterprising reporter from FIFA magazine was able to hold herr Blatter (pun, get it?) and capture his words of wisdom.
Asked about FIFA’s finances, Blatter replied:
Having said that, our objective is not to maximise income, but to optimise it. 70 per cent of our income is reinvested in football at the grassroots level. Television and marketing income from the World Cup is income for football in general.
Translation: Me and my cronies get to keep the other 30 per cent. Want some more caviar, my dear?
Asked about how he has been able to maintain energy for this, the most grueling of jobs:
Mainly from the periods of rest and relaxation that I allow myself when I go home to the mountains in the Valais to visit family and friends and to replenish my energy levels.
Loyal readers by now know all about Blatter’s rest and relaxation. We can only hope that on this most special of days Sepp has a nice massage and a lovely meal. After all, football fans everywhere are paying for it.
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By MV | March 14th, 2006 at 6:33 pm 
Sepp Blatter is a crook, a thief and a corrupt sack of sh*t.
He has used FIFA to enrich his son.
It would be a great day for football if someone shot him.
Posted from 
Netherlands
By steve | June 15th, 2006 at 1:42 am Sepp is a disgrace to football
The millions he steals could improve many lives in africa, by invesment in football academy’s.
It makes me sick that “football” something that even communism could not touch can be ruined by corruption.
Posted from 
United Kingdom
By Bernhard Grim | June 26th, 2006 at 12:38 pm Sepp Blatter is only in it for the money; the more money you put into football the harder he’ll cling onto his position. The way he has manipulated FIFA and the location of the world championships is a disgrace to all true football lovers.
I’m ashamed of being from the same continent as him, and I hope the members of FIFA has the stomach to throw this ogre out of his chair!
Posted from 
Norway
By lucien | July 12th, 2006 at 11:36 am FIFA and Blatter disgust me of soccer. They are also racist bigots on top of being crooks. How can Pelé and Platini stand by them ?
What happened to real soccer ?;
Posted from 
Belgium
By marwinsing | July 28th, 2007 at 3:26 am White South Africans patriotic to the cause of saving the white race from eternal extinction HATE you with a passion Sepp Blatter you filthy white cowardly piece of Swiss moo-cow offal!
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