Sepp Blatter believes he would still be in charge of world football if he had succeeded with a secret plan to award the World Cup to the US.
The 79-year-old blamed American and Swiss authorities for forcing him to give up power by arresting several senior Fifa officials and threatening to prosecute Fifa as a mafia organisation.
The US had decided to pursue Fifa, he claimed, after it was beaten in the race for the 2022 World Cup by Qatar. “It took a political dimension,” he said. “I am looking now to see what were the political reasons. The easiest thing would be to say [they are] bad losers.”
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