Visp – so was Sepp Blatter to the Godfather – Aftonbladet

VISP, Switzerland. sagely say: We are all distinguished by the environment we grow up in.

Fan know.

Well, it is clear that if you grow up in Koskullskulle between Gällivare and the North Pole you will become a quiet little man, for you have no one to talk to . It is also clear that if you grow up in Manhattan, you become a loud, jittery type, for you must drink the right kind of coffee, check stock prices, pretend you are a manager and get hold of cocaine before the bank closes. Of course, you are bird watchers, if you grow up in Takern and mountaineers if you are written in the Himalayas.

But otherwise I do not know. I carry with me some special behaviors that I have grown on the Hallandsås southern slope.

However, the This välsopade Swiss small town says residents: There were mountains that created little Sepp.

It was to answer this question as I drove into the Alps and found the Fifa boss Sepp Blatter’s native village: Can it really be mountains that made the privileged and intelligent jovial little ladies man so greedy and greedy for power, ålhal and corrupt, that he return empties world’s greatest pastime, soccer?

FIFA scandal – although overshadowed by Volkswagen’s technological fraud – were given new life when a prosecutor began to police investigating the 79-year-old Godfather “criminal regime “including his inexplicable multimillion-dollar payments to the rival Michel Platini, UEFA. Fifa scandal involving money laundering, fraud and abuse of power. A total of 14 suspected persons. Folds Blatter could mean five years in prison.

But the 3000 meters high, jagged mountains that line the narrow valley north of the Simplon Pass, what do they have with football and organized crime to do?

Well, the mountains grow village chatterboxes their self-image: “We are mountain people,” says Jean-Paul brig to my British colleague. “We are by nature fighters. We

m o ste survive – when the avalanche pulls down over you, you can not hold on, and dither whether to go left or right. It shapes us. “

” And Sepp is a mountain goat! He has reached football’s top. It’s like climbing the Matterhorn. “

Berg, yes. But the Valais valley is not “Sound of Music”.

Matterhorn , the romance much spoken 4400 meter high mountain, is within sight, when I Visp walk pedestrian out to check the mood of Bistro Napoleon.

Completely undramatic, like everything else in town. The German-language Visp, with 7300 residents, looks like thousands of other little towns in Switzerland valley floors. Highway into town, bordered by low modern industrial barns. Cleverness calls. Nursed properties

in the Labour architecture. Soul Dead center with pedestrian streets. Carefully marked parking spaces. Ordnung muss sein! It’s like a Lycksele with good economy. On the school’s facade is painted “Sepp Blatter,” and the local car dealer named Blatter.

Bistro Napoleon is of interest. There is a polished, modern ölhak driven by Sepp Blatter daughter Corinne. I eat a croque monsieur, a toasted sandwich with ham and cheese and drink a glass of Johannesberg wine.

No talking football. No mention of the city’s great son, football chief. It would talk about rope in a hanged man’s house.

Rather than viewing all in the roof. But they do not look shy or embarrassed. They are therefore looking to the ceiling is something to see.

In the ceiling is hung flags from Switzerland, all cantons but – above all – genuine, functional weapons. There, hanging hunting rifles and sub-machine guns, hyper-modern sniper rifles, assault rifles and repeater. The weapons are not plugged. Immediately ready for use.

As decoration? Well, rather advertising. Visp is often host a Schützenfest and shooting festival is a family celebration with beer and sausages, carousel and bang-bang. It is racing and hunting fair in one. Weapons habit there. Every Swiss should be in his house to have a capable and lethal weapon, it is included in the conscription law.

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This is where the men by Miss Blatter bar counter re starting to grind on the mountains:

“At 2000 meters, you can have a barbecue party,” says a man and the river itself mustache. “But at 4000 meters, the air is thinner. And on top wines wind. There are storm. You have to endure a lot. “

They have a religious relationship to the mountains and of course, the” bible “. One reads: “The moving mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

It was the prosecutor in Zurich did last Friday. Beautiful!