Friday, July 16, 2010
Whistle concert for denying Sepp Blatter
When Fifa chair Sepp Blatter entered Soccer City during the finals (NL - ES) in Jo'Burg, the complete audience was whistling sharply as a sign of firm disapproval of his conservative and bureaucratic policies at Fifa, now and then threatening to kill the popular interest in the game. Later Blatter said to a journalist, who asked about the whistle concert, that he didn't hear that and that he felt to the contrary a warm welcome. Maybe that is his way not to loose his face, maybe he is in outright denial, or maybe he has lost all sense of reality at his age of 74. Probably all three has some truth in it. Anyway, it is probably wise not to extend the term of Blatter at Fifa, but probably he will manage to continue until his death like Samaranch as former president of the international olympic committee (IOC). Actually, this only shows that in its heart FIFA and IOC are not democratic at all, and far from transparant. We have a long way to go before these two biggest sport federations open up for the people it intends to serve.
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