Thursday, May 28, 2015

Blatter far the toughest battle – Göteborgs-Posten

The son of a poor factory worker became the world’s most powerful football leader.

79 years old looks Sepp Blatter his empire breach and fight today’s most important battle.

Paradoxically, the lackeys who lift him who can also become his case.

During the nearly 17 years as Sepp Blatter has been base for the international football association FIFA has his office, marked by headlines with words like scandal, bribery and corruption.

The suspicion that not everything has been right to have been many, while the evidence been few or non-existent.

And it is not because the questions have been missing – it rather depends on getting around him wanted to give the answers.

Even at this level, the ball is round and everyone involved knows that if it rolls the wrong, the consequences can be dire. Therefore, the trail concluded. Scratching me, so I protect you.

In several interviews, Sepp Blatter called Fifa family – understood that a family stays together.

As the head of the family, however, Blatter over the years seen to have sufficient distance to the family’s black sheep, a distance which, however, has been shrinking for the last days and nights of revelations.

Shit splashed also spotted him, a dirt difficult to remove before the world’s eyes opened wide.

And even though there are many who face today’s crucial choice requires Blatter’s resignation, it’s at least as many who believe that he is clinging to remain as it is something he has always been good at.

In an interview Sepp Blatter said that it is because he was born prematurely.

– That’s how I’m so did my fighting spirit, he explained.

Joseph Blatter was born on 10 March 1936 in the Swiss town of Visp with about 6000 inhabitants. He has described growing up with his three siblings as poor. His father worked on and off in a chemical factory, the family lived simply and crowded, way up in his teens, he shared the bed with one of his brothers.

Someone distress, it was never a question, has Sepp Blatter told . There was

constantly a creativity to survive and make it through, he pulled himself including money by going around with a cart and sell fruit and vegetables.

Despite the tough times were the parents care to children would have generated. Son of Joseph trained as an economist, quickly made a career of the clock manufacturer Longines and soon became a name in the business.

In parallel there was Blatter’s interest in the sports, during a period he was General Secretary of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation. But it was football that was. In 1975, 39 years filled, was Sepp Blatter in the FIFA family as technical director.

The rest is some kind of story that spans 40 years.

In 1981, Sepp Blatter, FIFA Secretary General , a mission that extended until June 8, 1998 when he was elected President after the fight against Swede Lennart Johansson. “Purchased votes,” said the latter, and emphasized once again its opposition against Blatter.

– We are two very different people when it comes to dealing with problems. He can be a good president if he follows the rules, but when he does not, he gets spanked. Then I’m not as nice anymore, explained the then UEFA base for Aftonbladet.

Blatter was of course not slow to respond:

– Lennart Johansson’s campaign against me was personal and based on jealousy , jealousy and hatred, he thought.

Blatter with his political and tactical fingertip been adept at exercising and keeping his office no one can take away from him. He is said to love the limelight, the luxury and their tailored suits and is said to be more afraid of the day when he no longer stands in the center, than he is to take the actual battle.

A day may come sooner than anyone of us know.

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