Sepp Blatter a WIS?

[andrewcregan]

Story presently being covered by the BBC....

His claim contains the allegation that Fifa are still in possession of a number of his personal belongings, including around 60 of his watches.
"These are my watches, give me my watches" he said.
"It's important for me. I worked in the watch industry and I made my collection. Forty-one years they were [at Fifa], I could have taken them home, a long time ago.
"Why are they fighting for these watches?
"There is no respect, there is no respect by the president [Infantino]."

[magpie215]

Mmmm...I wonder what his collection consists of?

[Gerald Genta]

Hopefully it's not all football related hublot limited editions!

I imagine his collection would be very impressive. When I read the article I was hoping it would mention a few of them

[TaketheCannoli]

I imagine they were bought using his ill-gotten gains. I don't think we'll ever know the scale of his corruption. Auction the lot for charity.

[Flasher]

Story presently being covered by the BBC....

His claim contains the allegation that Fifa are still in possession of a number of his personal belongings, including around 60 of his watches.
"These are my watches, give me my watches" he said.
"It's important for me. I worked in the watch industry and I made my collection. Forty-one years they were [at Fifa], I could have taken them home, a long time ago.
"Why are they fighting for these watches?
"There is no respect, there is no respect by the president [Infantino]."

I doubt many manufacturers will be usinng him as an Ambassador for their brand.

[optix]

Didn't get get a lot of these a bribes from companies and national associations?

Recall coming across an artical that mentioned watches had been left on pillows in hotel rooms for the Exec Fifa committee


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[NickRed71]

I imagine they were bought using his ill-gotten gains. I don't think we'll ever know the scale of his corruption. Auction the lot for charity.

I bet many of them were gifts from sponsors, governments and grateful clients.


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[thegoat]

I bet many of them were gifts from sponsors, governments and grateful clients.


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Gifts that he was forbidden to accept.
Didn’t every member of FIFA receive a Parmigiani(sp) watch from the Brazilian FA for granting the World Cup to them?
I’d imagine the Russians and Qataris were far more generous to this snivelling corrupt charlatan.

[Ellgal]

Google is your friend here chaps. He used to work for Longines and iirc there has been at least one in depth feature on his collection by a high end lifestyle mag.

Part of me wants to say it was with the Bentley magazine they send out quarterly when you buy one new (which I haven’t btw).


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[Gerald Genta]

From googling FIFA returned 120 watches to him last year! the ones that are missing are from the 'high technology' element of his collection.

[Speedyexplorer]

I wonder how big Platini's collection is?

[magirus]

These thieves don't have collections, it's booty.

[Raffe]

Why is Blatter not in prison?

[Andyg]

Why is Blatter not in prison?

Perhaps it's the same reason why Platini and Sarkozy aren't.