Sepp Blatter, the President of FIFA from 1998 to 2015, was then banned by FIFA for six years until 2021 for alleged improper payments.
It was while Blatter was President in 2010, that FIFA voted for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup.
Now, at the ripe old age of 82, Blatter has suddenly surfaced, to criticise the decision of the current Administration of FIFA, because it intends to introduce VAR (Video Assistance for Referees) at the World Cup Finals in June 2018.
Currently he has no official functions in FIFA, so criticising the introduction of VAR at the coming World Cup will fall on deaf ears !
But, Blatter has a personal invitation from President Putin to attend the World Cup Finals in June ! Whether these Finals will, as usual, be a big success is now a doubt !
After the recent international outcries against Syria and Russia, for their abuses of Human Rights, will ALL the countries qualified for the World Cup still want to go to Russia ?
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