"The world is no longer Eurocentric" (Joseph Blatter, FIFA president)

"The world is no longer Eurocentric. In my 40 years at FIFA I have regarded it as my most important task to lead football out of Europe into the whole world. We have succeeded, but the process is not yet at an end," said Joseph Blatter, FIFA president, in the FIFA Weekly magazine on 27/03/2015.

"We must not forget that football’s global success is also based on the vast reserves of talent and economic resources drawn from Africa, Asia, North and South America and Oceania," added Blatter in his weekly column entitled "Solidarity and Unity," two concepts around which he built his speech at the podium of the UEFA Congress in Vienna (AUT) on 24/03/2015.

"Acting together and showing solidarity is the foundation of our success" (Full text of Joseph Blatter, on27/03/2015)

• "At the UEFA Congress organised this week (on 24/03/2015 in Vienna, AUT), Michel Platini said: 'You must know we are willing to work with you, hand in hand, for the good of world football, for the good of the 209…