Earlier this week, Sepp Blatter took another important step along the road to transforming FIFA from a governing body of the world’s most popular sport into a comedy troupe with a penchant for the absurd.
The date is finally set. Sepp Blatter's successor as FIFA President will be chosen at an extraordinary conference February 26, 2016.
Blatter announced his resignation in June, just four days after winning his fifth presidential term.
I almost feel bad for Sepp Blatter at this point; keyword: almost.
Don’t get me wrong, what is happening to him is completely pathetic and pitiful, but he deserves it all. His first words of his latest press conference were so ironic it was like someone paid him to take classes in poetic irony just for the occasion:
“We have to clean here first.”
Yes, Sepp, yes you do.
According to one of Sepp Blatter's former aids, the outgoing FIFA president might also be the incoming FIFA president.
Klaus Stoehlker, formerly Blatter's election adviser, said this to a Swiss newspaper: "Blatter has built the organisation into a global, highly successful company, and he's a top diplomat. Blatter has a reasonable chance. It now depends on how he behaves in the coming months."
Normally when someone says a movie is the worst movie in the history of everything, you'd take a look at Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" and see that it can get worse. This isn't the case with the FIFA propaganda film "United Passions." It somehow manages to be worse than "The Room" and that's saying something.
Don't get me wrong, Tim Roth nails it--he always does--but literally every other part of the movie fails on literally every single level. No, I am not being hyperbolic.
FIFA communications director Walter De Gregorio appeared on Swiss television and told a joke. After that, he didn't have a job anymore. The Joke?
"FIFA President Sepp Blatter, the General Secretary, and the Communications Director are in a car. Who is driving? The police."
A photographer has captured the image that may go down as one of the most timeless of all time, and it speaks volumes about Blatter and FIFA.
Blatter resigned Thursday amid an ongoing corruption scandal.
Sepp Blatter has announced he is stepping down from the FIFA presidency.
One of the greatest of his generation, Luis Figo posts his stern words towards Sepp Blatter and FIFA after the reelection.