Ex-FIFA chief Blatter blasts plan to sell stake in World Cup to investors
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ZURICH: Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Wednesday slammed the world football governing body's plans to create a US$20 billion subsidiary to run the World Cup, saying the tournament was not a commercial asset that belonged to a few executives.
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Blatter, who was FIFA president for 17 years until 2015, said the idea put forward by his successor Gianni Infantino would take commercialisation of the sport too far.
"Football belongs to no individual and to no institution. It belongs to the people," Blatter, 90, said
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