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	Sepp Blatter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph 'Sepp' Blatter (born March 10, 1936 in Visp, Wallis, Switzerland) is the current president of FIFA.
		Under Blatter, various rules purported to elevate the moral standards in the playing of the game were implemented including booking players who remove their shirts after scoring a goal starting in 2004, as well as those who are guilty of 'over-zealous celebrations'.
		Blatter the next day said that he was misinterpreted and that he wanted to say to the Australian fans that their team had played a great game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sepp_Blatter (1108 words)

	CNN.com - Blatter re-elected FIFA president - May 29, 2002
		Blatter, a 66-year-old Swiss, secured a second four-year term by 139 votes to 56 over his 55-year-old rival in a secret ballot held during a congress of FIFA's national associations in Seoul, two days before the start of the World Cup finals being co-hosted by South Korea and Japan.
		Blatter, who faces the prospect of legal action in the Swiss courts following a suit laid against him by 11 of the 24 members of his executive committee for possible criminal mismanagement of FIFA's finances, nevertheless held his power base with the associations.
		Before the vote, Blatter, who was first elected president in 1998 when he beat UEFA president Lennart Johannsson by 111 votes to 80, told the Congress that "my conscience is clear" as far as the allegations against him were concerned.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/worldcup/05/29/blatter (0 words)

	The Observer \| Special reports \| For the good of the game
		The official response of the Blatter camp to the persistent sleaze allegations surrounding the 1998 election is that cash was indeed handed to delegates in hotel rooms, but only because that was the quickest way to get official funds back to the grassroots.
		Blatter uses the political power of his "global family of football" to have many of the world's governments eating out of Fifa's hands.
		Sepp Blatter realises that football is the new opium of the masses.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /sport/issues/story/0,,722262,00.html (0 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Global: News - 'I have proof that Blatter is guilty'
		Blatter said: 'He said to me, with tears in his eyes, that he was a poor devil and had nothing left.
		Blatter conceded yesterday that making the secret payment to the Russian, one of his most loyal supporters, while he was out of office was 'irregular' - then, bizarrely, blamed Zen-Ruffinen for not finding out in time to prevent the pay-off.
		Until last Friday Blatter was confident that, with the financial support of the Libyan government, his own illicit payments to his supporters in Africa and the re-appearance of Gulf Arabs and their petro-dollars, he would retain the presidency.
	www.soccernet.com /global/news/2002/0506/20020506fifaaddo.html (0 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| Interview: Sepp Blatter
		Born in Visp, close to the imposing Matterhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps, Blatter remembers that, "I became involved with football at the age of four.
		Blatter nods vigorously when I repeat the Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein's recent comment that the game has reached "saturation point" and is in "intensive care".
		Blatter shrugs aside my own certainty that he will be unable to convince the Premiership that eventually they must cut two teams from their league.
	football.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9753,1377293,00.html (0 words)

	FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
		Joseph S. (Sepp) Blatter was born on 10 March 1936 in the Swiss town of Visp, near the famous Matterhorn.
		Joseph S. Blatter is one of the most versatile and experienced exponents of international sports diplomacy and is totally committed to serving football, FIFA and the youth of the world.
		Blatter also lends aid to refugee camps by providing them with football equipment, and he and FIFA are very much committed to fighting child labour.
	www.fifa.com /en/organisation/presidentsection/0,1525,2,00.html (0 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - Blatter: FIFA made transfer mistake
		Blatter admitted the blunder during a packed news conference in Moscow after visiting an annual indoor soccer tournament involving all 15 former Soviet states.
		Blatter said he was optimistic a new deal with the EC on transfers could be signed by mid-February.
		The new technology makes it possible to play indoors.' Blatter also spoke out against what he called 'an exodus of young players from developing countries and a new type of slavery' which must be stopped with the implementation of the new transfer system.
	www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2001/0121/20010121blatterfifa.html (0 words)

	SEPP BLATTER - NEW PRESIDENT OF FIFA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Sepp Blatter is a very happy man today.
		Blatter have served as FIFA's General secretary for more that 17 years working closely with former President Joao Havelange who is retiring at 82 years of age.
		At right website author Gerard Robbins presents Sepp Blatt with one of a limited number of the posters upon which is affixed an actual preserved piece of grass extracted from the playing surface of World Cup 1994.
	www.lacancha.com /blatter.htm (0 words)

	CNN.com - FIFA's Blatter denies criminality - May 5, 2002
		In Sunday's interview, Blatter admitted paying executive committee member Wjatscheslaw Koloskow, FIFA vice president from 1980 until 1998, a $50,000 salary for two years and said he had not followed the correct procedures.
		Zen-Ruffinen also claimed that Blatter paid referee Lucien Bouchardeau $25,000 to make statements about Farah Addo of Somalia, the vice president of the African Football Confederation (CAF) who is leading a bid by Cameroon's Issa Hayatou to replace Blatter as president in the May 29 vote.
		Blatter told CNN then that "bad losers" were behind the bribery allegations, adding: "The whole family of football has been damaged and this is a pity, and people going around with such defamatory allegations and information should think about that."
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/05/swiss.blatter (0 words)

	Fifa president, the anti-italian blatter - The Orange Room
		Blatter said Australians had every reason to feel aggrieved by the manner of their exit when they were beaten by eventual champions Italy 1-0 in the June 26 second round encounter.
		Blatter didn’t attend the ceremony to hand over the World Cup trophy, which was unheard of in the history of the spot.
		It's a good thing that blatter clarified this latest issue but one more problem is still left to be clarified by him and its the fact that he didn't present the world cup to the italians during the medal handing ceremony.
	www.lfpm.org /forum/showthread.php?p=371694 (0 words)

	FIFA president Sepp Blatter: it's time to stop refereeing experiments
		Blatter said a new system should be established at the 2006 World Cup in Germany whereby every match will be officiated by a team of referees from one country who had worked together for at least two years.
		Blatter said World Cup games should be officiated by the "best referees in the world." He hinted that FIFA may have to abandon its policy of appointing referees from as many countries as possible.
		The tournament's referee chief joined Blatter on Tuesday in denying a conspiracy, saying he was annoyed the referees have had their "impartiality subjected to the most brutally unfair scrutiny."
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	CNN.com - Women give Blatter short shrift - Jan. 16, 2004
		FIFA President Sepp Blatter drew condemnation from women's sports figures on Friday for saying the future of women's football could rest with tighter shorts.
		Blatter's remarks, printed on Sunday by Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick, were translated by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday.
		Herren said Blatter had talked about the need for women's football to attract different sponsors, possibly from the fashion and cosmetics industries, rather than depend on sponsors from the men's game.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/SPORT/football/01/16/blatter.women.reut (0 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Women footballers blast Blatter
		Fifa president Sepp Blatter has urged women footballers to wear skimpier kits to increase the popularity of the women's game.
		But Blatter's comments have outraged leading European women players, who have said his remarks could further undermine their sport.
		Blatter added: "Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/3402519.stm (0 words)

	Time to put Old Sepp down? - Chelsea Football Club Blog
		European football may not be perfect but it does not need Blatter’s meddling and engineering which ultimately suit his own ends, but as its powerbase in the game has grown stronger the more the FIFA president’s influence has decreased and the more outlandish and attention-seeking his outbursts have become.
		Well, maybe…) Blatter would be laughed out of every board meeting before the tea and biscuits arrived for being the biggest idiot in the room; no mean feat considering the company he would be in.
		Blatter is a fool, everyone knows that, but this is probably the best comments he has made.
	www.chelseablog.com /2005/10/13/time-to-put-old-sepp-down (0 words)

	Sepp Blatter - Attack on Football Capitalism
		Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, has launched an attack on the world’s richest football clubs, accusing them of greed and creating a “Wild West style of capitalism” which threatens to ruin the beautiful game.
		While Blatter remained quiet on naming the clubs in question, his remarks clearly directed at football investors such as Roman Abramovich and Malcolm Glazer, who bought out the shares in Chelsea FC and Manchester United respectively.
		Declaring that the time has finally come to curb the excesses in football greed, Blatter argued “The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.
	www.ukinvestmentadvice.co.uk /sepp-blatter-football-capitalism.htm (0 words)

	Shocking results at World Cup no surprise for FIFA president Sepp Blatter
		Blatter is not surprised with the results of the World Cup.
		Blatter said South Korea and Turkey have proved there are no longer any 'small' teams.
		Blatter said soccer outside of the two traditional continents would also receive a further boost in 2010 when the World Cup will be hosted by an African country for the first time.
	www.canoe.ca /Slam/2002/06/25/1654.html (0 words)

	Chelsea - Sepp Blather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Blatter, who has demonstrated time and time again that he harbours a pathological hatred of the English Premiership champions, chose as his subject of the day the number of foreign players at various clubs, and therefore called for limits on ‘foreign’ stars.
		What is astonishing is that, once again, Blatter took Chelsea as an example, failing to see that, actually, for the issue that he was attempting to address, Chelsea are far from the worst culprits.
		In this particular ill-advised rant (with Blatter there is never any other type) Blatter overlooked that Chelsea’s most expensive player purchase ranks no higher than 8th in the list of record transfers or that we have only 2 players in the top 20 wage earners.
	www.chelsea.vitalfootball.co.uk /article.asp?a=4288 (0 words)

	Sepp Blatter Welcomes Englands Bid - Soccer Fans Network Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Blatter said he would welcome a bid from "the homeland of football" and claimed they could take advantage of facilities used in the 2012 Olympics.
		Blatter is also an International Olympic Committee member and he is thought to have voted for London.
		Blatter met current FA chief executive Brian Barwick in London on Thursday, as well as Premier League chairman Dave Richards and sports minister Richard Caborn.
	forums.soccerfansnetwork.com /showthread.php?t=33559 (0 words)

	Who is Sepp Blatter?? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Sepp Blatter darf nicht mehr mit Schweizer Uniform rumgehen.
		Sepp Blatter ist der Erste, der jetzt in so einer Situation beiden Seiten zu beruhigen ist und er ist der jenige der dafür verantwortlich ist, dass die Sachen von FIFA ganz objektiv beurteilt werden.
		Sepp Blatter darf seine Position in FIFA nicht für Schweizer Vorteil ausnutzen.
	www.seppblatter.com (0 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Fifa boss Blatter attacks Chelsea
		Blatter said: "If a club can only have five foreigners among their starting 11, then they will have to build on their own youth system.
		Blatter made his comments in an interview with Fifa's official 2006 World Cup countdown magazine.
		Blatter had previously cited Liverpool as a team without enough home-grown players, but said the issue was ultimately down to individual national associations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/4520644.stm (0 words)

	CNN.com - Q & A with FIFA boss Sepp Blatter - Jul 7, 2006
		Sepp Blatter, president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), answers questions from you.
		Blatter: I will tell the congress that I am at their disposal and I will go on.
		Blatter: One can match it very well because football is a romantic thing if you take only the game but I am a romantic because I love my life and especially I love people.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/SPORT/07/04/revealed.blatter.qanda/index.html (0 words)

	Sepp Blatter worried by widening of Bosman ruling Russians dominate women's competition at Europe meet Hayley ...
		World soccer chief Sepp Blatter said a recent ruling by France's supreme court extending the freedom of movement of players inside the European Union to 24 other countries was "the Bosman case multiplied by a million."
		Blatter noted that Europe had also signed similar agreements with 77 third world countries in Africa and the West Indies.
		Blatter said he feared that the ruling, if it led to massive imports of players from Eastern European or African countries would hamper the current trend in EU countries to launch youth schemes in order to train home-grown talent.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=30909 (0 words)

	Sepp Blatter in South Africa - SouthAfrica.info
		Sepp Blatter, the president of football's world governing body Fifa, landed at Johannesburg International Airport on Wednesday morning for a two-day visit that will see him interact with President Thabo Mbeki and some of the country's top sport brass.
		Addressing the media flanked by SA Football Association (Safa) President Molefi Oliphant and CEO Danny Jordaan, Blatter said he was honoured to be heading the world organisation at a time when the world's greatest soccer showpiece, the World Cup, would be hosted in the country in five years' time.
		On Wednesday, Blatter was expected to interact with editors of major newspapers, meet with Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad and have dinner with football stakeholders and government officials.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/blatter-120105.htm (0 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport
		FIFA president Sepp Blatter insists Germany 2006 is the best World Cup ever, except for the referees.
		Blatter told FIFA.com he had been certain a tournament in the heart of Europe hosted by a country with a soccer pedigree like the three-time world champions would be a success.
		In an interview today with Tagesspiegel newspaper, Blatter said while he was happy with most of the attacking play so far in the World Cup, he had been disappointed with the England game-plan.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060630/sports.htm (0 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| England could have walked - Fifa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Fifa boss Sepp Blatter has admitted he would have supported England's players if they had walked off in the face of racial abuse against Spain this week.
		Blatter said possible sanctions could include a ban for the Spanish football team.
		But he denied that by allowing teams to walk off in protest at racism Fifa would be stirring up a hornet's nest, with fans of a losing team striking up abuse to have a game called off.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/4029757.stm (0 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Blatter wants to end shoot-outs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Blatter is unhappy at the use of penalty shoot-outs
		Italy beat France in the 2006 final on penalties and Blatter hinted changes may be made in South Africa in 2010.
		Blatter also criticised the high salaries paid to footballers, calling them immoral, and said Fifa would take on the issue as clubs in some countries price spectators out of stadiums in order to pay huge wage bills.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/football/5386228.stm (0 words)

	Indiantelevision.com > News Releases > CNN to feature Sepp Blatter on 'Revealed'
		With exclusive and unrivalled access, REVEALED: Sepp Blatter, takes viewers on a frantic journey as we follow his highs and lows in the run-up to the World Cup Final.
		Follow Sepp Blatter during his hectic schedule in the months and weeks leading to, and during, the 2006 World Cup.
		REVEALED follows Blatter to FIFA’s smart new building, where viewers see him in a candid and open mood cracking jokes over the World Cup stored in the corner of the room, “I never tell anyone whether this is the real World Cup or a replica because of the insurance” the President quips.
	www.indiantelevision.com /release/y2k6/july/julyrel6.htm (0 words)

	Sepp Blatter - Calls for Foreigner limit in General Football from Football.co.uk
		Sepp Blatter has launched a sensational attack on Chelsea by calling for limits on foreign stars.
		At present Blatter the president of FIFA said the issue was ultimately down to individual national associations which he said
		Blatter is living in the past though if he's trying to bring up the issue of player transfers amongst EU-nations.
	forum.football.co.uk /about5541.html (0 words)

	USATODAY.com - Blatter worried World Cup could be lowest scoring ever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		BERLIN (AP) — FIFA President Sepp Blatter is worried that this year's World Cup might end up the lowest scoring ever, and he wants to figure out ways to "make football more attractive again."
		Blatter wants to devise changes that will help attackers break through increasingly sophisticated defenses.
		Blatter ruled out one proposal of reducing teams to 10 men to counteract the growing speed and size of defenders.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/soccer/worldcup/2006-07-06-blatter-goals_x.htm (0 words)

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