Saturday, May 23, 2015

Blatter set to polarize opinion for 4 more years at FIFA (Yahoo Sports)

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 4, 2015 file photo, FIFA President Sepp Blatter attends a general Conmebol congress in Asuncion, Paraguay. Sepp Blatter's widely expected re-election on May 29, 2015 as president of soccer's world governing body for a fifth term has seldom seemed a real contest. Three rival candidates entered the race in January: Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, Luis Figo of Portugal and Michael van Praag of the Netherlands. Van Praag, however, dropped out of the race on Thursday May 21, 2015, and switched his support to FIFA vice president Prince Ali. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Sepp Blatter divides opinion so much even his opponents are charmed by him. Two sides of the FIFA president's reputation were summed up by a former rival in the re-election campaign he seems sure to win next week. ''I like you very much,'' Michael van Praag told Blatter when European soccer leaders verbally ambushed the sport's most powerful man in Brazil last June.




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