Sepp Blatter Apologizes to Australia Fans & then Backtracks from Apology

Football fans! my apology for my language here!! but I think this guy Sepp Blatter is really bullshit

Blatter.. i do not understand why he’s still the president.. how does he dare make such remarks.. im glad he wasnt the one to hand us the cup.. nxt time he tries to win votes for his reelection he better watch how he does it and what he says.. idiot

Just looking at the picture Bob posted, I cannot help but wonder what the Australian defender was thinking when he laid there like a dummy.

I commend Australia because I think they have an amazing team, but afterall all this time – no one has been able to convince me that a pk should in fact NOT have been awarded. The ref was NOT erroneous in his decision indeed. I think it is a trageady on the part of Blatter to choose a side in such a statement. Had Grosso been Brazilian (or that diver Henry from France) this whole situation would have been handled (and criticised – if at all criticised) differently.

I apologise to Australian fans for this, but the PK was deserved. There were far more controversial calls in this world cup. This is not one of them. It is only discussed because it happened at a crucial moment.

Bob what the fuck are you taking about?
What about the wrong red card to Materazzi which had certainly affected the match?
What about the wrong penalty against Italy in the final match?
What about all the cheating against Italy in Korea?
What about the cheating during the 2004 european championship?(if you’re not aware of this you should know that Italy was eliminated cause Denmark and Sweden fixed a match making a tie which helpd both)

Blatter has so many things to apologize to Italy but he has always hatd Italy(why didn’t he award Italy after the final?He was probably busy crying with the french players)and we ruined his plans (4 years ago they helped Korea and this time France should have been the winner but something went wrong)

P.S= Anyway Australia ,even if had ball possesion , wasn’t able to be dangerous even with one more player ,what did it do to win?..I don’t think it would have anyway.

It’s funny how a German can apology to a country the like of Australia.. And not to a country like Italy…. in the 2002 un call made during the quarterfinal game vrs. the babyied along host country korea.
Does anyone remember the 2 ghost offside calls verses the Italian….Yea we all forget that don’t we…How about the Spaniards don’t the too deserve an apology from Blatter..or is that only reserved for teams that might end up giving the German National team a heads up
when they would end up playng them ?……Well the PK was a correct call from the Referee and Australia did not lose cause of it….No Australia lost because the better team pravailed…Just ask Blatter’s birth country team …Germany….If they we’re the better team…Anyway an igmorant statement from an ignorant german…..

I thought Herr Blatter was from Switzerland.

Saverio after you determine the nationality of Sepp Blatter you might want to apologize to us Germans and then see a dentist about removing that foot from your mouth.

This guy is a joke. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY FOR THE PENALTY FOR FRANCE IN THE FINAL???????????????????????????

Materazzi never touched that frog….

How about the questionable red card on Materazzi???? How about the questionable offside on Toni?????????????/

Instead this anti-italian co*ksucker mentions this play…a play in which the horrible defender went to the ground and CLEARLY impeded Grosso’s progess in the box…that is a goddamn penalty kick….tell that bast*rd about youtube.com and watch about 20 different replays of it…

And by the way…who got fucked worse than Italy and Spain in 2002????????

The 2002 World Cup/let’s get the home team as far into the competiiton as possible and screw the traditional powers tournament….was a DISGRACE!!!

Totti dived?????? LMFAO…

Catherine, I absolutely agree. The ref HAD to make that call. The art of defending entails intelligence too. What was Neil thinking in slide tackling in a delicate situation? I remember one of my coaches insisting our defensemen act with caution in crucial moments at a critical stage in a game. By the way, has anyone noticed that he’s had two penalties called against in the Premiership this year? Australia played very well. In fact, the first half of that game was one of the better ones all tournament. Then the ref goofed in sending Materazzi off and Australia took advantage of the situation. But let’s face it, they weren’t going to score. If no one could (including Germany) Australia was not going to. Those are the breaks in sports. Welcome to the world of soccer where everyone has a grievance. As for Blatter, what a disrespectful buffoon. Let me see if I get this straight, he apologizes to one country by disparaging another? Unreal. Did he feel France should not have beaten Portugal? Did he actually feel that South Korea deserved to beat Spain and Italy? Of course, he was happy to see Italy lose. What about Brazil over Turkey in ‘02? France did not ‘deserve’ to beat Italy in 200o Euro either. A list of games where teams who shouldn’t have won but did would be a long one in soccer history. It was a mistake on his part. Poor Italy, I’m not an Azzurri fan but people feel justified in attacking Italy because Italians are allegedly arrogant. To me, they are knowledgeable, passionate fans. They are not bandwagoners like in France. I visited both coutnries often and saw many games there. Italians win hands down. What a faulty way to look at things. By looking at things that way we stay clear of objective thinking. Besides, many soccer countries are ‘arrogant.’ I’ve said it many times and will say it again: Italy DESERVED THE WORLD CUP. In the final France may have outpaced them but caught some major breaks. End of fricken story. I can’t believe we’re still babbling about this.

I wonder how the FIGC is going to respond to this…Sepp has made a bold statement he can back peddle all he wants but he has openly declared war on Italy. Ding! Ding! Let’s Rumble Baby..

Ehm Bob did i say something you didn’t want to hear?…you see i was wondering why YOU DELETED MY POST.

Well let me know…

No actually it was disappeared but now it’s there again ,i apologize fo that (unlike Blatter i have a reason to do it ;)

uhhh that was a penalty 100%, i saw it from a different angle and Neills hand comes across to catch Grosso. Totally a Penalty. SEPP BLATTER IS A MORON

Blatter should apologise to Italy and Spain for 2002…

Apologise to Italy about Zidane

Apologise to Italy about Malouda’s dive and ZZ’s fake pk

Apologise to Spain for all the calls made in favour of France in that game (pk, circumstantial free kicks)

Apologise to the world for attempting to destroy the beautiful game

italy 06 is the worst world cup winner since italy 82. just like in 82, this team didn’t show greatness before the wc and will not dominate the next 4 years. italy can only play it’s traditional closed football and doesn’t seem to be able to create and entertain. as much as I loved conti, antognoni, baggio or del piero, other players like gentile and matterazzi had more impact on the wc. If you’re italian , then love italy, but if you love football , you should be sad that italy won because many countries are going to imitate a poor wc champion.

Beautiful game my ass, it was never a beautiful game. You all need a reality check..Football is dirty, rough and controled by money hungry greedy individuals. But hey let’s just blame italy for all the ills of society…well fools, at the very least italy puts all it’s cards on the table for everyone to see while the other cowardly nations hide behind their self-professed integrity and love of the beautiful game…how sweet but only in a perfect world would this be even remotely true. This sport is rotten to the core and if italy didn’t exist it wouldn’t make a lick of difference. If you want to make an argument your comments are welcome but first tell us who you are and what you represent instead of taking cheap shots and running away. Sepp Blatter is a greedy swine who likes to belittle and discredit football nations who don’t bow down to him in homage…You can love football all you want but until you take money and the corrupt, biased governing body or should I say dictatorship out of the equation than football will never be beautiful. So continue to piss on Italy because I guess even cowards and simple-minded sheep need someone to blame. Open your eyes and maybe you’ll see the truth and not some version of it.

ITALY TO BOYCOTT WC2010

“italy 06 is the worst world cup winner since italy 82. just like in 82, this team didn’t show greatness before wc”

Well i’m wondering what you mean by greatness, i thought that when you play soccer you are supposed to play to win , so your greatness in something is based of what you achieve in that.
It seems that soccer wasn’t made to win but to entertain people like in a circus , i’m wondering why you follow soccer when you could just watch a movie( try an action movie or something like it) or ride a roller-coaster.

Anyway something tells me that when the game is suffered and the players show skills in every aspects even in the defense aspects , well that is the most spectacular game.

WHAT WAS THE MOST SPECTACULAR GAME ON THE TOURNAMENT? I BELIEVE WAS ITALY-GERMANY , SO HOW DOES IT COME?

It’s fascinating to see the explosion of emotion following Blatter’s despicable comments nearly four months after the World Cup. Emotions are apparently still raw; more time has to pass before fans can let go of the emotion that clouds their thinking and begin to see the truth and reality in the facts. Blatter’s statement of course will change nothing:
- the verminous and corrupt head of FIFA will retain his control over world soccer because he will still be able to buy enough votes among the FIFA membership

- Italy will remain world champion

- Italy deserved to win because it was the best team with an unbreakable defense and, contrary to the ridiculous comments in some of the posts on this page, a wide-open, spread-the-field, attacking offense that created numerous scoring opportunities

- The penalty against Autralia was deserved. Though it was not blatant or vicious, and not every referee would call it, the Aussie did slide under him in the box with the intention of takng him down. Italy has been cheated countless times by referees, eliminating the Azzurri unfairly from the WC and other tournaments, but this time the referee gave Italy the benfit of the doubt.
- The most beautiful game in the World Cup was Italy-Germany: The highest level of skill and competition, cleanly played, with mutual respect and sportsmanship, and no controversy of any kind. The two traditional powers of Europe showed the world what soccer is all about. And Italy demonstated what kind of team it really is when it plays against an honest and worthy opponent in a game free of political manipulation and machination.

ITALY WERE VERY LICKY TO WIN TH WC.AUSTRALIA WERE MUCH THE BETTER SIDE TECHNICALLY AND IN TERMS OF FLAIR AND EXCITEMENT.ITLAY ARE A VERY POOR SIDE COMPARED TO US AUUSIES.

The beautiful game is played in Italy, anyone who knows football knows that.

Period.

See … Australia should’ve been champions!!!

Poor Australia gets an apology, sucks. who the hell wants to see an Australia-Ukraine quarter-final, please. Italy love em or hate em make money for FIFA people tune in by the droves to watch them win or should I say lose…who the hell cares about the stinkeroos, seriously people stick to Rugby or Croc hunting or playing your didgeridoo..Australians are great, i know quite a few but football..just give it up.

the beautiful game is in england,anyone who knows football knows that…..the dead game thrives in itlay,anyone in football knows THAT!!!

Italy’s Klaus Dibiasi who won a silver medal in platform diving at the 1964 Olympics, and went on to win gold in the same event at the next three Games (1968, 1972, 1976), and is the only Olympic diver to have won three successive gold medals has given Grosso’s dive 10/10.

I would have given 9.5

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And they look alike …

http://www.olimpiadi.it/campioni/Klaus_Dibiasi/im/Icona.jpg

http://fabio-grosso-news.newslib.com/img/logo/6727.jpg

:-) ;)

Well Well, Look what mr Blatter has come up with now!! lol.. Seriously can someone with a chance at winning please run against this guy in the upcoming fifa presidential elections.

First off Before apologizing to Australia, how about apologizing to the fans of football around the world. Because of Mr. Blatter’s corrupt ways every world cup but this last one in 2006, I am counting the 1998 and especially 2002 games were disgustingly rigged in favor of a group of nations which blatter would hope into bed with in a second. Obviously we know who they are, Brazil and France. He tried damn hard for a Brazil and France rematch this year, but all hope failed with France’s dismal group stage. Sadly being born in Holland, Im almost sure of this, the jackle does not even support his own national team, instead teams like Portugal, Brazil, France, are all part of his coalition of favored teams. Was there an apology to the fans of the team that played Brazil in 2002, where Rivaldo did the most PATHETIC DIVE in the history of football? Any apologies to Spanish and Italian and even portugese fans for that disgusting display of support by officials for a korean team that should have not made it past the group stage let alone the quarterfinals? Just to show you, Korea in 2002 got handled by a Germany who was well below the capabilities of the Italians and the Spanish in that world cup.

It is really sad, that this kind of corrupt individual is incharge of football at the highest level. Him and his team of cronies should be thrown in jail along with the likes of other people that have ruined the beautiful game and sold it out in the name of greed. If I was Spanish, Argentinian, Dutch, etc etc, I would revolt against this person, But as it turns out I am Italian, and we have been shafted the worst by the greatest racist since Adolf Hitler. This persons stunt pulled at the World Cup finals, was very reminisent of Hitler Leaving that VERY SAME STADIUM in 1936 upon an african American winning the gold medal in the 100 meters. WOW how history repeats itself. The Dive was a dive, but it was also a penalty, because NO ONE, I mean NO ONE, goes to ground to defend in the box, the defender blocked the goal scoring passage, thus its a penalty, get over it. Italy are world champions Sepp, and they did it by passing every bloody attempt you threw at them to stop in eventuality!!! I would honestly say, that Italy are the first true world champions since 1994 brazil, This italian team not only faced onfield opponants, they played against the 5 officials, and the puppet master himself.!! Forza Italia!!

People like saad, are idiots in what they say. Look at the facts, Italy scored more goals than any other team at the WC, and they allowed less goals then any other team at the world cup. That not only shows brilliant defence, but also some pretty brilliant offence. This closed style of football that you people refer to it as didnt exist, if you think it did then your blind, the Italians PERFECTED the counter attack out paced all their opponants and got gritty when they needed to be. No one else did it, and thats why Italy are world champions… Keep watching your premiership, cause obviously you like pointless football, rather than classy, consistent, tactical football! Not only did we teach the world how to eat, we taught them how to play football too!

Neill should really apologise to Grosso for that brutal attempt at a tackle. Obviously a penalty and good on the ref. for havig the guts to call it.

What can you say about blatter that hasn’t been said already. The guy should be forcibly removed from his position. He continues to be an embarassment, call security and throw him out.

Good for you Grosso…Neill’s a moron and he got exploited for his amateur defending…See you in 2010, yeah right!

Socceroo –

What you forgot to mention is that Grosso & Diliasi actually look alike. Thery’re probably family! (lol) ;)

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Indirect free kick at best … you and the ref. need to learn the rules. Besides nobody actually gives a toss anymore. True fans of the game realise that sometimes calls go against you which makes the game interesting. Imagine how sterile the game would be if every call was correct.

Marco-
Whatever! You’re taking crap… Italy employs defensive football always for internationals and base their offence on counter attack with the only exception when they’re behind and chasing the game. They have been doing that for decades. Even past Italian coaches concede that fact… it’s not pretty but it’s a tactic that has worked well for them. Italy international football has nothing in common with Seria A, just as the English players playing club level are more exciting to watch than when they play internationals.

Irish lad, I semi agree with you leave it at that… However English players are boring internationally, only because they need to adjust their tactics so they dont get scored against every 5 minutes. Imagine if they played that lousy defense and the lonnnggggg balls into the box hoping for a lucky bounce. Haha even the Uber defensive italians would score 20 – 30 goals a game. English football needs to conform to other styles, Its NEVER the opposite.

As for the counter attack, that counter attack got them the most goals in the world cup. What crap did I say that you speak of? Did you not watch this world cup? Did you not see the clever Pirlo balls into the box, Gilardino runs, the glancing Toni headers that hit post after post after post?? I hope people stop harping on Grosso’s heroics and start focusing on a) who seriously can replace Sepp Blatter, and b) what would the world cup have been like if Totti was on FORM!!! remember he is Pele’s choice for the best player in the world!

“True fans of the game realise that sometimes calls go against you which makes the game interesting.” Amen brother, finally someone with some common sence on the issue.

@Irishdownunder you stated “Indirect free kick at best … you and the ref. need to learn the rules.” That remark is self decrediting and shouldn’t require me to correct.

However, there might be some people who think you might actually know what what your talking about. So for them let me clarify the rules. The Ref. has only 3 choices, he can either let play continue, give a card for diving or call a pk.

Now moving right along a picture or in this case a video is worth a thousand words. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2PgG8j0gyQ

replace “decrediting” with discrediting in my last post. Thanks

Well, i fI can add my two cents it would be what I already said before:

What was Neil doing there on the ground? What the hell was he thinking? The view from the video 4 posted was the ref’s view (the one that show’s Neil hit Grosso’s foot with this hand).

Furthermore, what does eveyone expect Grosso to do? Jump over Neil? Fly????

I’ve seen WAY more debatable calls. How about all the Malouda and Henry dives? REAL dives that were always called in their favour. Why doesnt anyone talk about that? In the final, Malouda jumped and fell and he wasnt near any player at all. Yet – that was France’S only goal. The game need not even go into pk’s. Toni’s goal should have counted. How about that? Sepp should definitely apologise.

How about Henry’s dives that won France a pk and a free kick against Spain? Two of their goals should not have even counted. Spain should have moved ahead.

What about Brazil’s 2 offside goals against Ghana?

What about Figo’s headbutt?

And Materazzi should not even have been given a red card in the AU game. Can you deny that?

The list goes on…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3qpE8WZMt8

This is what I’m talking about

This one is even better…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PxXtiocqc

english football is the best and biggest in every department.take a look at the champions league this year.4 teams all doing superb,my money is on a chelsea man u final.the two best sides in the world at this current time.

Neill Grosso is dead. Do not disturb the dead, for ye shall pay for it with the curse of boredom.

Frank, I agree about the 2002 world cup, it was a disgrace. In order, the top teams to get screwed were :

1. Spain – Blatant, criminal even.
2. Italy – Blatant
3. France – Semi-blatant… sending off Henry for nothing against Uruguay? Permitting countless fouls by Uruguay?

HOWEVER… to say Totti did not dive against the Aussies is dishonest. Italy would still have won that game without it, I have no doubt.

Phil? A Totti dive against Australia? You must be confused…

The envious anglos ,who love to thrash italy ,should realize one important fact .Italia has won the cup 4 times while the arrogant bastards won it only once ,and we all know that the goal that broke the 2 -2 tie never crossed the goal line. It is amazing that even after WWII ended 61 years ago the venemous british propaganga against italia is alive and well.

All those who are bitter at Italy winning the world cup are just mad they can not come from a country that has the best women, food, culture, and soccer players. I guess i would be mad to if every time i get married or date an italian man or women steels him/her away. For all those Socceroos, stick to rugby becasue it shows you dont know how to play soccer. Remember this, Italy is the champs, they proved it, and thats why they are four time champs.

TO ALL ITALIANS ,NEVER FORGET OR FORGIVE ,FOR WHAT THEY DID IN 1985 AT THE HEYSEL STADIUM DURING THE FINAL OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GAME BETWEEN JUVENTUS AND LIVERPOOL.

I did not agree with the red card, it ruined the game and forced Italy into a game they didn’t really want to play. Australia had the opportunity with the man advantage but you have to make more than one dangerous attempt on goal in order to win the game. I felt Italy had Australia’s number. They (Australia) held positon well but did nothing with it. I thought Australia was capable of much more but in the end they were just over-rated and the right team went through to the quarters. I’m a little back and forth on the penalty call and it’s horrible to win or lose a game this way however any player in Grosso’s situation would have done the same but I guess you have to really understand the game to see my point. I really don’t feel Italy cheated in anyway, yes they did dive to win free kicks and such but I felt France was more guilty of this tactic. All Italy’s goals were completely legit discounting the penalty shot. You cannot deny their drive to win at all costs and after 2002 they had alot to make up for. This was a personal victory for Italian fans who have been waiting 24 long years for another title. I did not have faith that Italy would pull it off, this is definitely not the most talented squad that Italy have ever produced but they really stuck together. All oposed to Italy’s victory and I know you are many all I can say is I don’t expect you to understand or accept Italy as world champions or think of Italy as anything but a crooked country but Italy were given the opportunity and they have seized the moment. Let us enjoy our moment of glory while it lasts fratelli.

Blatter is an idiot

Phil,

“HOWEVER… to say Totti did not dive against the Aussies is dishonest:

I’m not sure if you had a typo or misunderstood but the Totti “dive” I mentioned was in 2002 agaisnt Korea. Not agaisnt the aussies…

I’m not sure if you meant Totti vs Korea or Grosso vs Austrailia…

It is just a game, all of you get over it. A boring game at that!!

Italy gets screwed every fuckin world cup. Look at 2002 wc against korea. Totti gets red card for ‘diving” i box. i dont know about you guys, but i looked at the replays over and over, and i think the ref was on crack. Also 2002 wc, agaisnt croatia. Took 2 goals away because of the offsides…. (both linesmen were fired after that game) Fucking bulshit. Now this world cup. Italy had alot to prove in thsi world cup due to the scandal. I think that it drove them all the way to the finals.

what about the Penalty shot that fuckin retarded ref called against materazzi tripping Malouda in the box.. when he clearly didnt even touch him.

Theres many more but i dont think we should waste our time remebering the contraversal side of italy, and look at our success as the greatest football nation.

In my books. we had the chance to have 6 world cups…..

1994- Brasil beats italy penalties

1998- France beats italy penalties( France goes on to own brasil)

FORZA ITALIA

Okay LOL after reading all these posts I’d like to add my comment.
First of all the Grosso dive on Australia…Question for all you soccer buffs. Had that incident happened outside the penalty box would it have been a free kick? Yes it would have! So it happened in the box it was a penalty plain and simple. One said it before far worse blatant and bad calls have been made. Number 2 I’ve noticed so much disdain for the Italian squad in fact on a television talk show one woman stated that the Italians were the weakest team throughout the entire world cup. Thus my point on how much people hate the Italians so it really doesn’t matter to argue points because they have been made 4 of them. By the way Brazil should be no where near a 5th world cup sorry but it just wasn’t theres I think spain should have been awarded that one in 2002. How does it sound to the spanish their team scored 5 goals but they lost the game?
Some for of callusion taking place there. As far as the Italians, yes the one’s that everyone loves to hate pulled it off again fair and square. No one scored a legitimate goal against Italy. Own goal was scored in the U.S. vs Italy match and one questionable penalty kick scored by zidane but nothing was scored during regulation time in any game throughout the entire tournament. Well to all the Italians out there they want the food, the clothing, the cars, the art the culture. But they don’t want the Italians…I must say Italians truly are the persecuted people and they will always find a way to say that they cheated. So don’t worry about it the facts are the facts Italy will always be known for everything that it does great. Football, Food, Fashion, Ferrari + much more LOL Good for you Italia…Good Luck in the Euros God help you when you win that too!

Oh by the way, how Materazzi was made out to be a monster following the final. It was deplorable what he said????? It doesn’t matter what Materazzi said. Zidane reacted with violence what is more deplorable than that? Zidane I’m sure has been the target of far worse insults having grown up in the slums of Marseilles.

It just goes to show you the hatred for Italians exists but please remember when you go on a date to wear your Italian Fashion, drive your Italian Car and Go to and Italian Restaurant. Italians can do no right or be awarded congratulations by these jealous fanatics. I think people should learn to leave the Italians Alone by the way proof that the Italians were cheated in 2002. The game Italy played vs Korea let it be known to all was Refereed by Byron Moreno of Ecuador who was sent home and condemned to never Referee another FIFA game again for You guessed it Bribery… ohhhh so the bad call made against Totti was paid for. But you don’t hear to many people admitting that. People just love to hate the Italians plain and simple so please just grow up and put your prejudice aside its 2007 almost 2008

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