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Blatter blasts soccer's 'pornographic' riches
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-10-13 06:12
Blatter condemned the huge wages commanded by top players, bitterly attacking
"the spectacle of semi-educated, sometimes foul-mouthed players" already earning
huge sums but "holding clubs to ransom" for more.
It was "simply insane" for a player to earn 6-8 million pounds (8.75-11.6
million euros; US$10.5-14 million) a year, as the very top earners now do, he
said.
"What logic, right or economic necessity would qualify a man in his mid-20s
to demand to earn in a month a sum that his own father - and the majority of
fans - could not hope to earn in a decade?" Blatter asked.
A new FIFA taskforce was being formed to deal with "the
kinds of excesses I have outlined," Blatter wrote. "And I am confident that this
initiative will bear fruit quickly and decisively," he added.
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