By Daily Sports on October 21, 2017
Despite being ban from football activities, FIFA ex-president Sepp Blatter has said he will be in next year’s World Cup in Russia.
The disgraced ex-president of the world soccer body told AFP he will be in mundia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
"I will go to the World Cup in Russia. I received an invitation from President Putin," the 81-year-old said in an interview.
A Kremlin spokesman said Russia will "be happy to see (Blatter) in Moscow".
"You know that Putin and Blatter have for a long time been, you could say, friends", Dmitri Peskov told reporters.
Blatter, who led world football's governing body for 17 years, was thrown out of the sport in 2015 at the height of a massive corruption scandal.
Fifa's ethics committee has suspended him from all football-related activities for six years after finding him guilty of accepting an improper 2 million Swiss franc ($2.1 million, 1.8 million euros) payment from then-Uefa chief Platini. © AFP
•Photo shows Sepp Blatter.
Source Daily Sports
Posted October 21, 2017
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