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Article: Blatter re-election could force World Cup breakaway
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- March 31, 2002
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THE prospect of a breakaway World Cup is being mooted in some
European football circles and could move a step closer if Fifa
president Sepp Blatter is re-elected in May and attempts to effect
changes which would weaken the influence of football's most powerful
continent.
There is already a poisonous atmosphere between Blatter and many
in the Uefa hierarchy, including president Lennart Johansson. Those
who oppose Blatter fear he will reintroduce his proposal for a World
Cup every two years, while simul-taneously attempting to cut the
number of European nations in the finals and reduce the number of
Uefa delegates on Fifa's 24-man executive committee.
Chelsea chairman Ken Bates is among ...