The Swiss believes that jealousy is behind the
attacks on his time at the helm of the game's
governing body
Fifa president Sepp Blatter says that he is being
made a scapegoat for others' failings, sarcastically
suggesting that some people would even go so fa
as to blame him for global warming.
The Swiss announced last month that he will
imminently resign from his post as he no longer
feels he has the full support of everyone within th
game after football's governing body was rocked
by a corruption scandal that resulted in the arrest
of 14 people just two days before his re-election.
Indeed, Blatter feels that he has been unfairly
maligned, given he has not been charged with any
crime, and reiterated that he cannot be held
accountable for the actions of every Fifa employee
"I not only see everything, I'm responsible for
everything, even for the English women's own goa
at the World Cup recently," the 79-year-old is
quoted as saying by Reuters .
"Am I responsible for climate change too?
"It is impossible to stamp out robbery and murder
even with a functioning courts system down to
community level. Soccer is not better than our
society.
"But this envy has been festering for years. Envy i
a predicate to jealousy. And jealousy is rooted in
love.
"This can, however, turn to hate. And that's what
happened when this tsunami hit us two days
before the congress."
The 14 arrests were the result of a FBI-led
investigation into alleged corruption dating back t
1991, while Swiss authorities have opened a
separate inquiry into the Fifa vote that resulted in
Russia and Qatar being awarded the next two
World Cups.
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