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[quote][i]Originally posted by Tillamawnin[/i]
[br][h2]Blatter's grip on global game tightens with landslide
[/h2]

[h5]BY KEVIN MCCARRA<br>
Fifa President triumphant as rival is routed[/h5]

THERE will be 64 matches in the World Cup finals, starting tomorrow, but none will produce a rout to equal Sepp Blatter’s victory yesterday. He ensured his re-election as President of Fifa by a margin of 139 votes to 56. Issa Hayatou, his rival, was overwhelmed. After all the campaigning, the President of the African Football Confederation discovered just how powerless he actually is. 
The outcome exceeded even Blatter’s expectations. He had been accused of financial mismanagement, paying cash for votes and making unauthorised payments amid warnings of an inevitable calamity for football’s world governing body. Nonetheless, few delegates were persuaded to abandon him. Indeed, Blatter — who strenuously denied the allegations and claimed that he was the victim of a smear campaign — has improved on the figures he achieved when first taking office in 1998, when he gathered 111 votes.

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The FA was among the critics who judged that Blatter’s support came from the small, impoverished countries who benefit from the Goal project that awards grants for the development of football. Blatter proposes that Fifa keeps spending about £10 million a year on Goal. After yesterday, however, it would be selfdeluding to doubt the wider endorsement of him.

In Europe, whose well-heeled nations are supposed to be a hotbed of antagonism towards Blatter, Hayatou received 20 of the 51 votes. In his own continent he could command only 26 of the 47 votes cast. In North, South and Central America, no one rallied to his cause.

There are still problems ahead of Blatter, 66, as the financial viability of the organisation he leads is questioned. David Will, chairman of the internal audit committee that was established in March and then suspended by Blatter within a month, said that Fifa was millions of dollars in debt and technically insolvent. But the sceptics cannot attack Blatter directly. There have been some concessions to his opponents. Blatter announced that budgets will now be provided on an annual basis instead of covering a four-year span.

There was a more dramatic step towards accountability in confirmation that the internal audit committee is to resume and deliver findings in December. That report on Fifa’s affairs, however, will be lodged with an executive committee that, after recent changes to its composition, should be more indulgent towards Blatter.

The concessions did offer a degree of comfort. “There was a recognition that some issues have to be addressed, no matter the result of the election,” David Taylor, the chief executive of the Scottish FA, said. “No one can be satisfied with what has gone on, least of all the President,” Geoff Thompson, the chairman of the FA, said. “If he is really determined to unify his executive committee, then that can only be good for football.”

Nonetheless, a reinvigorated Blatter is bound to be forceful. “There will be numerous changes in the administration,” Chuck Blazer, one of Blatter’s greatest supporters, said. The most noteworthy of these will be the removal of Michel Zen-Ruffinen, the Fifa general secretary, who wrote a scathing review of the President’s administration. “He said he was in trouble and he is in trouble,” Blatter said. “I shall be a little more prudent in the choice of people who have to work directly with me.”

Will’s situation is less clearcut. He was recently re-elected to the Fifa executive committee as the representative of the “home” associations of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. “His position is certainly not under threat,” Taylor said. Even so, Will’s circumstances are unenviable.

Lennart Johansson, the President of Uefa, was among the Fifa executive members who initiated a legal action in Zurich aimed at ensuring an investigation into Blatter’s running of Fifa. “I think it should be over now,” Johansson said. After such rousing acclaim of Blatter’s stewardship yesterday, it would be unrealistic to expect action to proceed.

With re-election secured, there is a theory that Blatter will now be more consensual, but the man himself sounded determined to drive his project forward. “We want a more commercial structure,” he said of his planned revamp of Fifa. It would not be surprising if that led to enhanced authority for Blatter himself.

Many Fifa voters are delighted to let him have free rein. “I have been given a mandate to restore harmony inside the football family in order to regain credibility outside,” Blatter said. His foes will simply wait for their own gloomy predictions to come true. Blatter knows that, but he will savour these World Cup finals in a contented frame of mind.

[h6]from the London Times[/h6]

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Live simply so that others may simply live.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Edited by - Tillamawnin on May 29 2002  23:20:21
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Posted - May 29 2002 : 11:19:27 PM

Blatter's grip on global game tightens with landslide

BY KEVIN MCCARRA

Fifa President triumphant as rival is routed

THERE will be 64 matches in the World Cup finals, starting tomorrow, but none will produce a rout to equal Sepp Blatter’s victory yesterday. He ensured his re-election as President of Fifa by a margin of 139 votes to 56. Issa Hayatou, his rival, was overwhelmed. After all the campaigning, the President of the African Football Confederation discovered just how powerless he actually is.
The outcome exceeded even Blatter’s expectations. He had been accused of financial mismanagement, paying cash for votes and making unauthorised payments amid warnings of an inevitable calamity for football’s world governing body. Nonetheless, few delegates were persuaded to abandon him. Indeed, Blatter — who strenuously denied the allegations and claimed that he was the victim of a smear campaign — has improved on the figures he achieved when first taking office in 1998, when he gathered 111 votes.

The FA may feel a little nonplussed this morning. Four years ago it put its weight behind him but found that being a party to success did not pave the way to hosting the 2006 World Cup finals, which were awarded to Germany. Yesterday it switched sides and threw its lot in with Hayatou. There is no terrible punishment to be visited on the FA, but its prospects of re-establishing English influence in the global game have suffered a considerable setback.

The FA was among the critics who judged that Blatter’s support came from the small, impoverished countries who benefit from the Goal project that awards grants for the development of football. Blatter proposes that Fifa keeps spending about £10 million a year on Goal. After yesterday, however, it would be selfdeluding to doubt the wider endorsement of him.

In Europe, whose well-heeled nations are supposed to be a hotbed of antagonism towards Blatter, Hayatou received 20 of the 51 votes. In his own continent he could command only 26 of the 47 votes cast. In North, South and Central America, no one rallied to his cause.

There are still problems ahead of Blatter, 66, as the financial viability of the organisation he leads is questioned. David Will, chairman of the internal audit committee that was established in March and then suspended by Blatter within a month, said that Fifa was millions of dollars in debt and technically insolvent. But the sceptics cannot attack Blatter directly. There have been some concessions to his opponents. Blatter announced that budgets will now be provided on an annual basis instead of covering a four-year span.

There was a more dramatic step towards accountability in confirmation that the internal audit committee is to resume and deliver findings in December. That report on Fifa’s affairs, however, will be lodged with an executive committee that, after recent changes to its composition, should be more indulgent towards Blatter.

The concessions did offer a degree of comfort. “There was a recognition that some issues have to be addressed, no matter the result of the election,” David Taylor, the chief executive of the Scottish FA, said. “No one can be satisfied with what has gone on, least of all the President,” Geoff Thompson, the chairman of the FA, said. “If he is really determined to unify his executive committee, then that can only be good for football.”

Nonetheless, a reinvigorated Blatter is bound to be forceful. “There will be numerous changes in the administration,” Chuck Blazer, one of Blatter’s greatest supporters, said. The most noteworthy of these will be the removal of Michel Zen-Ruffinen, the Fifa general secretary, who wrote a scathing review of the President’s administration. “He said he was in trouble and he is in trouble,” Blatter said. “I shall be a little more prudent in the choice of people who have to work directly with me.”

Will’s situation is less clearcut. He was recently re-elected to the Fifa executive committee as the representative of the “home” associations of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. “His position is certainly not under threat,” Taylor said. Even so, Will’s circumstances are unenviable.

Lennart Johansson, the President of Uefa, was among the Fifa executive members who initiated a legal action in Zurich aimed at ensuring an investigation into Blatter’s running of Fifa. “I think it should be over now,” Johansson said. After such rousing acclaim of Blatter’s stewardship yesterday, it would be unrealistic to expect action to proceed.

With re-election secured, there is a theory that Blatter will now be more consensual, but the man himself sounded determined to drive his project forward. “We want a more commercial structure,” he said of his planned revamp of Fifa. It would not be surprising if that led to enhanced authority for Blatter himself.

Many Fifa voters are delighted to let him have free rein. “I have been given a mandate to restore harmony inside the football family in order to regain credibility outside,” Blatter said. His foes will simply wait for their own gloomy predictions to come true. Blatter knows that, but he will savour these World Cup finals in a contented frame of mind.

from the London Times

__________________________________________________
Live simply so that others may simply live.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Edited by - Tillamawnin on May 29 2002 23:20:21

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BY KEVIN MCCARRA

Fifa President triumphant as rival is routed