FIFA: "At the beginning it was only a personal attack. It was Platini against me" (Joseph Blatter)

"At the beginning it was only a personal attack. It was Platini against me. But then it became politics. And when it is in politics, it is not any longer Platini against me. It is then those, who have lost the World Cup. England against Russia. They lost the World Cup. And the USA lost the World Cup against Qatar," thus Joseph Blatter, president of FIFA, suspended from any activity in football since 08/10/2015, explained the origin of the "great tsunami" which has, for months, shaken the international federation, in a long interview the Russian agency TASS, on 28/10/2015.

"I became the primary target of the attack because since three years already, and specifically after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the UEFA did not want me as the president. It was a conducted attack on the FIFA president. But the other confederations, they were with me. Only UEFA tried to bring me away. They did not succeed. Even with this tsunami I was reelected as president (on 29/05/2015)," added Joseph Blatter.

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