Sepp Blatter
Sepp Blatter
Joseph "Sepp" Blatter is a Swiss football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFAfrom 1998 to 2015...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth10 March 1936
CityVisp, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
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The stars of the tournament will serve as role models for hundreds of millions of other players around the world. So it is all the more important that Germany 2006 sets a positive example.
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It would only be normal and it would show a little respect to the clubs that release their players to the national team.
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Diving is worse than shirt-pulling or tripping. It is betraying the players and the referee. I'm in favor of red cards for diving.
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Fighting this scourge is one of our most important tasks. Whether associations, teams or players at each and every level, we all have a duty to ensure that our conduct does not lead to anybody being marginalized. Football has to set an example for others to follow.
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Then we should take only the players that want to go to the World Cup but then ask to the players if they want to go to the World Cup or not.
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It's a nonsense to have doping in football, ... A player with more muscles is not a better football player because what is needed today is skill and not muscle.
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I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.
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It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.
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The FIFA World Cup is the perfect platform to send out this message to the whole world of football as people all around the globe will follow the 64 matches in Germany. The stars of the tournament will serve as role models for hundreds of millions of other players around the world. So it is all the more important that Germany 2006 sets a positive example.
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We will use the technology in Germany next year if the experiment works. The technology will also be used along the touchlines to show whether the ball is out of play.
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They are a little too much the perfectionists. We still haven't found the optimal solution. If everyone has to show their papers, it will take four hours before spectators are in the stadium.
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We have developed football and taken it to the world. Now it is our obligation to use football to help build a better future for us all.
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As the new competition will go ahead in a spirit of solidarity with the champions of all six FIFA confederations involved.
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At the standing areas, there is always movement. Sitting spectators are quieter.