Blatter hit out against Platini in sensational interview – VG

The suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter (79) has created strong reactions on social media after an interview with the Russian press.

– This Blatter interview seems almost not true, but if it’s there, it’s pretty crazy, writes Grant Wahl in Sports Illustrated, one of many to respond to the statements, on their Twitter profile.

Owen Gibson , covering FIFA racket for The Guardian, also responds to interview via Twitter.

– Fascinating interview with Blatter with delusions. Everyone has reportedly blamed except him, writes journalist.

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– Platini was not brave enough

The interview in question, was published by the Russian news agency TASS Wednesday morning. During the long interview thunders Blatter against Platini and believes he was the victim of a purely personal when FIFA scandal gained momentum.

– I was the main target of this attack because UEFA already three years ago – and especially after the 2014 World Cup – did not want me as president. It was a well-organized attack. In the beginning it was a personal attack. It was Michel Platini against me, says Blatter.

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– He started it, and then it went politics in it.

Blatter get asked “why Platini dislike him.” He responds:

– You have to ask him, he knows it. Probably it was so because he wanted to become FIFA president. But he was not brave enough to go for it. FIFA works well. Since I became president, we have made FIFA a large commercial company. And that naturally leads to envy and jealousy.

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Blames media

He blames the press that he is now suspended.

– It is total nonsense that Platini and I are suspended for three months. This is not justice. I placed these people there in the ethics committee, and now they have not the courage to listen to neither the Secretary-General, Platini or me, he says in the interview. I think the pressure from the media was the reason.

Blatter also says:

– I’m also a ball in the power game between the US and Russia.

During the interview he admits in addition that it was planned that the World Cup in 2022 would go to the US, but that a meeting between Platini, Nicolas Sarkozy and the Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani led Qatar got the championship instead .

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