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FIFA President Sepp Blatter talks to CNN's Pedro Pinto about FIFA reforms and whether racism in football is a problem.

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Blatter rejects European council's call for FIFA election probeupdated: Fri Mar 09 2012 11:02:00

Defiant FIFA president Sepp Blatter has told one of Europe's top political organizations not to interfere in the world football body's affairs after it called for a probe into his 2011 re-election.

Blatter reveals donation to families of Egypt victimsupdated: Tue Feb 07 2012 14:04:00

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has confirmed that world football's governing body will donate $250,000 to the families of those people killed in last week's football riots in Egypt.

Sepp Blatter talks racism in footballupdated: Wed Dec 21 2011 14:24:00

FIFA President Sepp Blatter talks to CNN's Pedro Pinto about racism in football.

Blatter: 'Racism controversy closed'updated: Wed Nov 23 2011 09:57:00

FIFA president Sepp Blatter claimed on Wednesday he has apologized enough for remarks he made last week regarding on-field racism in football, with the Swiss saying he now considers the matter "closed."

Beckham: FIFA president's racism comments are 'not right'updated: Fri Nov 18 2011 13:41:00

Football superstar David Beckham has condemned controversial comments made by Sepp Blatter, who is refusing to stand down as FIFA president despite widespread criticism.

Sepp Blatter under pressure to step downupdated: Thu Nov 17 2011 22:44:00

The chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association discusses calls for Sepp Blatter to step down from FIFA.

Campbell: Blatter comments make me sickupdated: Thu Nov 17 2011 15:15:00

Former England football defender Sol Campbell says Blatter's race comments are 'unacceptable' and make him "sick."

Blatter has thrown soccer back 40 yearsupdated: Thu Nov 17 2011 15:15:00

I think Sepp Blatter's comments on racism have thrown football back 40 years. He doesn't realize the ramifications of him saying those kind of things.

Twitter reacts angrily to Sepp Blatter's comments on racismupdated: Thu Nov 17 2011 08:56:00

FIFA president Sepp Blatter told CNN Wednesday that on-field racism was not a problem in football, remarks which caused a stir on the social-networking site Twitter.

Blatter: No deal with UEFA chief Platiniupdated: Wed Sep 14 2011 11:16:00

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has denied reports that he plans to hand over power to UEFA chief Michel Platini before the end of his final four-year tenure as the head of world football's governing body.

Blatter: Rebuilding FIFA's reputationupdated: Tue Jul 05 2011 09:54:00

CNN's Alex Thomas asks newly elected FIFA president Sepp Blatter about his plans for reform.

What crisis? Five Blatter highlightsupdated: Fri Jun 03 2011 05:01:00

"Connect the World" looks at five highlights from FIFA President Sepp Blatter's news conference.

SI.com: Grant Wahl: U.S. could benefit from a potential 2022 World Cup revote by FIFAupdated: Thu Jun 02 2011 16:59:00

The e-mails and Twitter questions kept pouring in this week: Why was the U.S. Soccer Federation staying radio silent on the shenanigans at FIFA? Why didn't U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati take the moral high ground and publicly back England's call to postpone Wednesday's FIFA presidential election amid corruption investigations at world soccer's highest levels? And was the U.S. actually voting for incumbent FIFA president Sepp Blatter?

Social media criticizes Sepp Blatterupdated: Wed Jun 01 2011 19:56:00

CNN's Digital Sport Producer, Ben Wyatt, shows the views of the social media users who openly criticized Sepp Blatter.

FIFA's leadership crisisupdated: Mon May 30 2011 11:42:00

CNN's Patrick Snell discusses FIFA's bribery scandal.

SI.com: Grant Wahl: What happened when I ran for FIFA presidentupdated: Wed May 04 2011 11:22:00

On Feb. 17, Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl announced his candidacy for FIFA president, releasing his platform for change and his campaign video as the People's Choice to replace Sepp Blatter. Wahl had 43 days to be formally nominated by one of the world's 208 national federations before the final deadline: Friday at 6 p.m. ET. With the deadline about to hit, Wahl is ending his campaign. This is his inside story of what happened over the past six weeks.

SI.com: Grant Wahl: It's time to depose Blatter as FIFA's longtime leaderupdated: Thu Feb 17 2011 11:23:00

Seppsis \sep´sis\ n The presence of toxins in FIFA, world soccer's governing body, under current president Sepp Blatter.

Sepp Blatter on 'wonderful' Messiupdated: Wed Jan 26 2011 04:48:00

FIFA President Sepp Blatter talks to Pedro Pinto about 2010 Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi.

Controversial World Cup hosts explainedupdated: Fri Jan 14 2011 07:11:00

FIFA President Sepp Blatter talks about the 2018/22 World Cup hosts Russia and Qatar.

FIFA chief on Qatar's gay stanceupdated: Tue Dec 14 2010 20:46:00

FIFA President Sepp Blatter says gay soccer fans should 'refrain from sexual activities' if they go to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

SI.com: Ann Killion: Human rights? Women? Heat? FIFA didn't look at issues with Qatarupdated: Tue Dec 14 2010 12:09:00

In the days since FIFA's baffling decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar there has been a lot of talk about adjusting the timetable because of the oppressive heat.

SI.com: Gabriele Marcotti: FIFA's choices of Russia and Qatar show its desire to leave a legacyupdated: Mon Dec 06 2010 14:53:00

Angry about the World Cup host vote? Can't understand how Russia and Qatar -- despite generally substandard technical reports filed by FIFA itself -- are getting to host the biggest sporting event in the universe in 2018 and 2022, respectively?

Blatter slams English football debtupdated: Wed Mar 31 2010 14:29:00

FIFA boss Sepp Blatter tells CNN's Pedro Pinto that English football clubs need to stop overpaying their players.

Time.com: Soccer Tackles Foreign Playersupdated: Thu Nov 08 2007 13:00:00

If FIFA's President Sepp Blatter gets his way, a quota limiting the number of foreign players on European clubs will be imposed

SI.com: World Soccer: FIFA president Blatter dishes on the state of the gameupdated: Mon Aug 20 2007 04:12:00

FIFA president Sepp Blatter was recently elected to a third term as international soccer's top executive when he ran unopposed. The 71-year-old Swiss sat down to chat with World Soccer's Keir Radnedge about the future of the game, the race to host the World Cup, racism in the sport and much more.

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