Text/Poland We are all about to forget about Joseph Blatter.
The former FIFA president is 85 this year. However, FIFA is still afraid of him today, if not, why did FIFA sentence this 85-year-old man to another 6-year ban on March 25? In 2015, Blatter was forced to resign as FIFA president due to a cross-border investigation by the US judiciary, and was later banned by FIFA for 8 years, then changed to 6 years, and this year is the time to lift the ban. Today, another 6 years and 8 months of ban is a substantial lifetime ban.
85-year-old man, what else do you expect him to do in football? If not, how could FIFA impose such a ban on Blatter?
In fact, this "bad old man" is indeed hard-wired. He has worked for most of his life at FIFA, and after Avilange, he is like a symbol of FIFA's entire empire. It is he who has established a perfect national team competition system, as well as the "World Cup Carnival" system that affects the whole earth. It is also him, "taking the World Cup to the countryside", from Japan and South Korea to South Africa, and then to Brazil, and then Russia, Qatar, just to say, do not evaluate the good or bad, only on the impact, he deserves the sentence "Things are whisked away, hidden and famous". Even if the 2015 time was suddenly interfered with by the US judiciary, Blatter himself was spared, but voluntarily resigned from the fifth TERM of FIFA president he had just won, and did not accept the punishment of the law.
But no matter how hard people are, they can't fight the system, even if the system is created by himself. As the saying goes, the situation is stronger than the people. In 2015, a turning point in Blatter's fortunes, he stepped down as chairman and Infantino was elected, who became the new face of FIFA as the empire and quickly removed Blatter as a toxin in the system. So Joseph Blatter, from the chairman of FIFA over hundreds of millions of people, was transformed into an ordinary "bad old man" and a "bad old man" who was charged with corruption and a ban.
From the perspective of conspiracy theories, Blatter's exit is by no means the result of the purification of FIFA's self-system, but a "prescriptive" abandonment of the FIFA system in the case of the United States. In ancient China, the grassy uprising, there are often anti-corruption officials do not oppose the purpose of the emperor, FIFA this move, is anti-emperor not anti-system.
come! Let the conspiracy theory go through: the United States lost the 2022 World Cup - the United States shot - Blatter was out - Infantino came to power - the United States won the right to host the 2026 World Cup in conjunction with Canada and Mexico - is this a very complete and closed logical chain?
Blatter felt that he was carrying one of the biggest secrets of the football world, and seeing that the empire he had built in the past was still marching and operating exactly according to his own logic, he was full of unwillingness and grievances.
He can abdicate, but he is not willing to retire, for example, when he was in the World Cup in Russia, he also went, and met with Putin, of course, outside the stadium; for example, he commented from time to time on Infantino's quick success and good fortune, of course, when commenting so, he must have forgotten what he had done in the past; for example, he would also knock on the side of the spot to point out the causes and consequences of Qatar's access to the World Cup, and then nag to get back his 65 high-end watches...
Thus, in March 2021, the 85-year-old Blatter again received a six-year ban and a fine of CHF 1 million. I understand that this is a very symbolic ban: Blatter no longer belongs to football, and his secrets can no longer interfere with the operation of world football.