Dismissed allegations of corruption: Blatter insists: “I am clean” – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Tuesday, August 25 2015

 
 
 

 
 Seven arrests senior Fifa officials for corruption actually speak a clear language. But not for the president of the international football association, Joseph Blatter. It remains true that FIFA is not corrupt and he himself an honest man .
 

 
 

The outgoing FIFA President Joseph Blatter has accused of systematic corruption in football rejected and protested his innocence personal again. “. I know what I have done what I did not do I have my conscience, and I know that I am an honorable man,” the head of world football federation said in an interview to the BBC and stressed: “I am Honest. I’m clean. I have no worries. “

The institution is not corrupt, underlined of the 79-year-old Swiss. “There is no corruption in football, there is corruption among individuals. It is the people,” said Blatter. He was re-elected in late May for a fifth term, had little but later announced his resignation. With his retirement after 18 years in office then he wanted to protect the Fifa. “Myself, I can protect you alone. I am strong enough for it,” Blatter said.

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At the edge of the FIFA Congress in Zurich were seven senior football officials, including two Vice-Presidents on the Executive Committee of the World Federation, were arrested. In Switzerland and in the US investigations running on suspicion of corruption. Blatter’s successor shall be elected on February 26 2016th Favorite to win the Fifa top job is not yet the Frenchman Michel Platini, currently president of the European Football Union (UEFA).

Other candidates for the position are the South Koreans and former FIFA vice-Chung Mong-joon and the Brazilian football idol Zico. In addition, the association leader of Liberia, Musa Bility, talking for Blatter’s field. In the unlikely event of an empty candidate list Blatter a report in the Swiss newspaper, according to “Blick” looks apparently still at the Fifa top. “I am elected president, I never resigned, I have provided my office. If there is no successor? I do not know, there’s a president,” the paper quoted the 79-year-olds. Blatter sees his future as a radio presenter, he said.

 
 

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