However, I am reluctant to take places away from anyone; there should not be a redistribution of seats on the Executive Committee but a commensurate expansion of this body, the key is to strengthen democracy within the ‘FIFA government’. The confederations must be proportionally represented according to the number of member associations they have.

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Fifa stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

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We cannot constantly supervise everyone in football ...you cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.

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Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

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When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

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Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.

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The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

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What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.

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We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.

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Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

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Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

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Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

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All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.

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Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.

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I am the president now, the president of everybody.

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It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

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I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.

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As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

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The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.

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Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable. Russia was the only high risk location for 2018 and racial chanting is rife there but a Mr. R. Abramovich paid a significant fee to fund the voting proceedings and, not to be discriminatory, we would have to see the same thing from any England/Spain representatives wishing to have another vote.

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We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.

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