Saturday, March 26, 2011

FIFA boss: Blatter warns of the "hostage of the betting mafia"

When Joseph S. Blatter entered the dark blue suit of the conference room "Basel" of Swissotel Zurich, was expected to not really been as usual Fifa-glorification. But then struck the President of the Football World Association pithy words with alarm. In his speech to Congress "Sport finance, sponsorship and sports betting" asked the Swiss to international governments to rid football of the "hostage of the betting mafia." "That we alone can not," Blatter said after a few witty words of welcome: "Because of all the football money for the Mafia found a victim, he must be strong enough to compete against the betting mafia to.." The Fifa do everything possible to protect the football, but ".

We can intervene even impossible by regulations, where it enters the field of criminal law" Therefore, Blatter said that "we need the help of the authorities. Zero tolerance today and tomorrow, zero tolerance has to be a matter of course! The football must be protected even outside the court.

We need the help of governments." In Bochum currently heads the manipulation of the ring sitting on the dock, which are probably responsible for the biggest betting scandal in football history. Suddenly, Blatter said, "our game had been taken hostage by the betting mafia Suddenly, they say.

In football - there's something going on, because what happens. This is bad. "Betting on football can not be granted ban.'ll Bet in every classroom," said Blatter. "But in football betting should be organized, legal betting. The temptation is to manipulate our game. These are people from a system that you can really only be described as criminal.

"Blatter said the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to stand in the fight against manipulation by the side of Fifa." Not only football, all sports are affected. Together, we must attempt to suppress a stop to, "said the 75-year-old. Since Blatter to face the end of May a vote for the office of the Fifa president against the Qatari Mohamed Bin Hammam has, he is obviously not take the chance .

to conduct the election campaign, he pointed to his success, calling football players as "something like a sixth of the world population," football is more popular can not be beat, and also the largest business operation in the world. "He makes 300 billion U.S. dollars sales per year. "His challenger, he did not mention a word.

Then Blatter surprised at his" home game "yet with a little conspiracy theory. Of course, the betting mafia targets primarily on referees and players. He suspects but behind the attacks on the football, people and organizations that look suspicious on the success of the sport. "Or there are even envious, wishing to slow the football, break him do?" Said Blatter.

He was optimistic that football will survive ", this new plague" of match fixing. "He will survive the plague, as it has survived many other things. We will survive this," he said. The speech, he graduated with a joke: "I bet?"

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