{"id":28,"date":"2005-10-12T17:26:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/the-wisdom-of-blatter"},"modified":"2010-01-18T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:37:37","slug":"the-wisdom-of-blatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/the-wisdom-of-blatter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Blatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, would you believe it? FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter sets out a mission statement for football &#8211; and it&#8217;s one that I heartily welcome. Here&#8217;s what he said (as reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/football.guardian.co.uk\/News_Story\/0,1563,1590430,00.html\">this Guardian article<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;football is more about grass-roots than idols; more about giving entertainment and hope to the many than bogus popularity to a predictable few; more about respecting others than satisfying individual greed, whether for adulation or money&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bring it on, Sepp!<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: Herr Blatter will be on BBC Radio 5 Live at 8pm this evening (Thursday 13th Oct) to answer questions &#8211; should be a fascinating and (hopefully) incendiary show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, would you believe it? FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter sets out a mission statement for football &#8211; and it&#8217;s one that I heartily welcome. Here&#8217;s what he said (as reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/football.guardian.co.uk\/News_Story\/0,1563,1590430,00.html\">this Guardian article<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;football is more about grass-roots than idols; more about giving entertainment and hope to the many than bogus popularity to a predictable few; more about respecting others than satisfying individual greed, whether for adulation or money&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bring it on, Sepp!<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: Herr Blatter will be on BBC Radio 5 Live at 8pm this evening (Thursday 13th Oct) to answer questions &#8211; should be a fascinating and (hopefully) incendiary show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}