Blatter blasts South Africa critics 12/02/2010 |
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter has hit out at those who believe South Africa should not have been chosen to host this summer’s World Cup.
Several high-profile football figures, including Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness, have questioned South Africa’s ability to stage a successful tournament, with many raising security fears following the attack on the Togo team bus at the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.
But Blatter said: “It is nonsense to combine what has happened in Angola with a terrorist attack and link it to the South Africa World Cup.
“Eleven million tourists travel every year to South Africa. Last week an ATP tournament was played in Johannesburg and they didn’t die.
“It’s kind of an anti-Africa movement – this is not right. There is still in the so-called ‘old world’ a feeling that why the hell should South Africa organise a World Cup?
“It was easier for them to go down to Africa, the colonialists in the past hundred years, to take out all the best, and now to take out all the best footballers.
“And when you have to give something back, they don’t want to go. What’s that? It is a lack of respect, a lack of respect for the whole of Africa.”
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