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By Salvatore Landolina<\/h3>\n

6 Jun 2011 19:49:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n
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Joseph S.Blatter, Presedent of FIFA<\/p>\n

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Fifa president Sepp Blatter insists that he is determined to restore credibility within world football’s governing body following the recent bribery allegations.<\/p>\n

Blatter was re-elected for a fourth term after his only opponent in the race, Mohamed Bin Hammam, withdrew before he was suspended by Fifa’s Ethics Committee over allegations of bribery.<\/p>\n

Despite widespread scrutiny facing Fifa and their president in recent times, Blatter has revealed that his primary aim is to clean up the image of the organisation.<\/p>\n

“I have said ‘zero tolerance’ is one thing, but I have also said the social and cultural implementation of football is important — but now it’s to rebuild the image of Fifa, that’s number one, and I have already started,” Blatter told CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We are now somewhere where football needs a little bit more credibility because we came building up football, bringing so much money in to this game.<\/p>\n

“Automatically a lot of devils came in to the game and now we are in a situation where we have to go forward and we have to cut all these allegations, criticism, whatever. We can’t do it in one day, but we will do it.”<\/p>\n

The 75-year-old also rejected claims that there would be lifetime bans for anyone found guilty of corruption within his organisation and hinted that Qatar would not face an inquiry, despite Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke suggesting that they bought the right to host the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a killing instinct that we have to kill people! Zero tolerance means that if you commit something outside the play of field, you will have a punishment,” he added.<\/p>\n

“But it can be a yellow card, it can be a red card, it can be a suspension for two games, three games… lifetime.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know why we should open something because somebody has said something towards Qatar.<\/p>\n

“Let me work now on this new approach of the ethics committee, let me work with this committee of solutions and if this committee of solutions or the ethics committee have the impression that they should do something then let them take the decisions.”<\/p>\n

Blatter also confirmed that, along with opera singer Placido Domingo, former United States secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Ajax legend Johann Cruyff will be appointed as advisors.<\/p>\n

“These gentlemen are more or less advisers, they are not the experts but advisers and what they should be also is the kind of council of wisdom which my Executive Committee would not like because they think they are the council of wisdom, but I have also contacted the Spanish singer Placido Domingo,” Blatter continued.<\/p>\n

“He is happy, he is proud that he is part, as Kissinger also. People say he [Kissinger] is an old man, but he is a wise man.”<\/p>\n

When asked whether he had had enough of being Fifa president, considering the amount of criticism levelled at football’s world governing body in recent times, Blatter responded: “No. I haven\u2019t had enough.<\/p>\n

“I would say I have received enough kicks and I hope I want this to stop now, but I want to prove now that we can bring back this credibility to Fifa, to the football… because the world of football is a good world of football.”<\/p>\n

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