then it's not so if he's invited me to it i'm not going but this is where i'm going to spend the whole world cup. that's a studio i'll show you. this is a lot of people they just stand. beside the cameras so i'm going to be looking at that for most of the world and the view is simply stunning i have to say that. who is reading this the first video. oxys. i speak and he joins p. and i know. he said made it easier for fans to access the championship process has been taking a look at the height. is this way. the whole program that is going to do during the world cup clicking a huge play here you have all the camera feeds. this is my camera here.

so basically i'm going to be standing there with a with a red spot in the background. my country and. then my place on the sixteenth then we play australia and then we end up playing. france here in moscow and if you are in moscow. a really good stead if you really want to see football history we've got the football museum here that fisa has made especially for the world cup. i'm testing myself on the i don't know if i'm for this right. yes. so miles out of sight and. that see it you know we'll cuff. if.

it was stolen base it's your original one and it's never been recalled with. since he's the only goalkeeper ever so when the bundle and then won the the world cup in one thousand sixty six it's a law long time ago and when you have an association with a need feel how desperate they win the trophy. you got frightened spec'ing by all of the guns you can call if you don't quite fit as well so they played in the one nine hundred seventy full final and germany wanted to one. so when we were at the joy and in moscow and in december i met george coupled with a legendary mexican goalkeeper while they can special forces should so the last couple was not the size of you'd expect the gold people to be actually quite small but he always wore these sort of close and they will couple of numbers too big for

his. message ronaldo that both going to be there. you contenders for that is name. is really one methodology and if you manage to get that fit. and here from here it's about. as a space for the two thousand and eighteen world cup in russia so so cool when this thing which will. it's. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some people want. to go on to be close to see what it looks like three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lawns of my house. first sydney. the world cup this is just around the corner so i've gone to syria to defeat the headquarters to meet the man in charge gianni and son team. it's his first

world cup a feat for president and i'm really intrigued to hear what he has to say this is your first world cup afifa president you've been obviously been to the european championships you've been to world cup before but now your fee for president so what are you looking forward to. by don't think too much of them see the president who are. trying to think about the world cup us as i would think. i would have thought about it four years ago or eight years ago as a football fan assessor mother was special obviously being fully aware of the responsibility that the position of the president is about but i'm i'm really looking forward because the world cup is the best competition in the world is where you have the biggest emotions is the competition where everyone in the world speaks about football and about the match of the night before whatever team plays whether

it's. our eyes on the wild card for the first time or brazil or germany everyone in the streets in zurich or in john as work they speak about that and they live with it. and it will be it will be just fantastic it will be emotional it's also in a particular time i think where we need to feel some some unity in the world and some unity around football the things that matter that that's a very very big issue because it is no secret a lot of tension between the world and the world cup host nation. how are fifa how are you dealing with that i mean how exhaustive. coming in making this the best event in the world with all that's going on at the moment by focusing on football i think that's the key and that's the secret we have to focus on full but i think there are enough. sadly people around the world to try to just

you know divide or argue or dispute or whatever we have to try to unite. football is uniting football is as this is magic and this power of bringing people together we don't want to make politics we don't want to take positions on whether and who is right or wrong we have to organize football and if thanks to football we can send those on messages of unity and football is about bringing together about enjoying about about creating an atmosphere which will show to the world as well a country like russia with one hundred fifty million. people who want to welcome the world in their in their country and i think football has this power to change those of the perception of people about the country and about maybe a particular period in time and i'm sure that this will come up in russia and this

but they're going to moment of time will have quite significant impact we've all unfortunately in in the years in france we saw some really ugly scenes. and it's a worry i mean looking at it from going into the tournament it's a worry that that there is this thing happening in russia with internal matches and how a fever dealing with that or the thirty's dealing with that is again something that people shouldn't be afraid of that is certainly something that is that with very seriously where everyone is aware in particular the authorities in russia of the situation of the different. supporter groups who are. biola and so the focus will be done. of will be will be put on on the rug a deal making sure this doesn't happen and this can be done in an event which is

you know happening in one man's very much focus of a lot of preparations unfortunately idiots are living all over the world and violence around football is happening all over the world as well when you are over south america or. africa or whatever else this is something that we always have to focus on generally it's not an easy one because violence is also a reflection of society. but for a big event like like the world cup the attention is very much this is actually going to russia of course is a safe tool to russia. it is and it will be very safe but it will be even safer the world russia during the world cup because the authorities in russia a notch aware of what the world cup means and they want to feel as well and welcoming country and their preparations in terms of security for the little club

are beyond any other. events so the conditions will be there for a very safe world cup and obviously those who want to go and enjoy football and enjoy a part of the summer they should go to russia those who want to go to have riots or whatever they better go somewhere else exactly go somewhere else how much how much is fifa new involved in and setting you know the security and organizing that do you have a saying and how all that should be dealt with it's the police authorities and so on and in russia i'm in charge of security obviously we are in contact with them we can share with them the experience that we have teeth. from previous events the coordination is contacts council if you're up for example where

russia is also part as well as all other european countries have a specific task forces in terms of security because you know you can always learn and make things better so there's all taken very much into account and we think we have an active role in contributing to that is what you said before you don't see is of his future president but you are you also a private person and a football fan so when when you plan your schedule for the world cup how. is it important you watch all the all the teams played some point yes and i'm going to do that yes i'm i'm planning to. to watch all the teams and to be in all the venues at least once. then yes i can see this is that's doable but as the ability level how does how rather do that that the day is sometimes too much is per day. but. i must do it i want to do that i want to see those i want to experience it

it's a it's a fantastic ok asian and it's also a question of respect for those who who are participating in all the fifa president has to be there it's very clear we we had a bit of the debate when we did the things i'm going in in moscow with the joe and since then you you have announced that it's going to be part of the world cup but it's also been written into the laws of football yes so why now. why you know because. we tested it for two years. and because the results of the tests were true if and have managed to convince us that we should. make this step this is what we have decided to years ago well let's test it for three years and in two

years if it works if we are committed it works people in the laws of the game and everyone can and every competition or has a kind of decide if he wants to use it or not. personally i was. very skeptical i have to say at the beginning i did not really believe that. it could work because i was afraid about the flow of the game and interruptions of these kind of things. but on the other side you know for decades everyone was saying well we should have some video for the referees and so on and so forth and it's true that. in two thousand and eighteen if everyone in front of his t.v. or inside the stadium with his mobile phone known within a few seconds whether the press committed a big mistake and the only one who doesn't know it is the referee himself we make something wrong at the referee does noise not because he doesn't want to know it

but because we prohibit him from the point but everyone else knows it. it's not right it doesn't feel right so we had to make these tests i have to say that i was i completely changed my mind and convinced that it's the right thing personally to do but whatever my position is generally. considered that it's the right thing to do because of the results of the tests we're testing there are around one thousand matches with more than one thousand matches. matches not presently sufficient matches and the result has been that without the a r. there would have been or there was one clear mistake over every every three games with we are there is one clear mistake over every every nineteen games. the accuracy. of example the a curacy of the decision we followed the a r e's of ninety three percent

of the referee's decision which is already extremely high and three percent of the things are correct we three are these percentage goes up to ninety nine percent so two hundred percent. but it's ninety nine rather than ninety three when it goes to the interruption to the flow of the game. one of the statistics there which has really culture my my attention which i was not aware of a lot isn't actually on every match we lose seven minutes for steroids. seven minutes throwing doesn't decide anything else well you were able to destroy the sites again. it put in fifteen seconds on freaking yes but minutes put the v.a.r. is one minute per game. and he decides the gate so we can lose

one maid per game if this has an impact on the result. first so it's been two years since you were elected president. an interesting time i assume what what what what's it been like a very interesting time a very challenging time the last two years with me incredible incredible experiences of course coming in in a very very difficult moment for four feet first albeit an easy task but. to refocus thief on football has been the most important to achieve thing and challenged that we had obviously reforms to be implemented but more than that i think we have been really focusing on the full believe element on not investment in

development programs with the photo program all around the world on. new for my part of the world cup with forty eight teams of twenty twenty six to give more chance to more countries all around the world to participate focusing on women's football focusing on news football focusing on the club world cup where we study new ideas so i think not to speak about the pitches well obviously with the we are i won't start those things it will be a challenging time but i realized even more that football is the number. one sport all over the world and we have to cherish this and to protect this to a lot of good ideas and you focus on a little but the fact is a lot of people left for various reasons. and you need people to implement all this is is it has been a big challenge to get the right people in and i did and i with the right

organization all we're working on that we're working on it of course it's it's never easy to to change organization because you have to change the culture as well of the organization from the top being i would white organization it brings additional challenges as well in terms of cultures of mentalities of people and what they want to do here in fever is really also in the administration to bring people from all over the world because this. is maybe at the beginning a bit more complicated because you need to understand each other but it is also enriching an organization like this is maybe the the biggest difference because before you were employed to lead you if and now you are elected to to lead the world of football that you have to you have to look at all the diversity all the cultural differences and you have to sort of make sure there's common ground that's absolutely right that is the main the main difference is not just about executing

isn't just about being mostly an operational function but it's much much wider than that and it is worldwide and who is important all over the world and wherever you go. in the world whether it's in east asia south africa or in the caribbeans wherever there are challenges and the response for football and you have to take all of this into account and then the same time if to keep your line and do things because if you go for the lowest common denominator you don't do anything we don't want personally is a key word charming the world to experience different ways of passion what i have been surprised. of is it's really the passion of existing countries which i would never have expected like we have now through the enemy's national team

on the twenty three arrived second in the asian cup and the way they celebrated the team when it came back it took them five hours from the airport to the city center roof millions of fans and in the streets. that has been just just an amazing experience and. speaking to be enemies people what they were telling me what football brought them in terms of joy and pride for the whole country. one hundred million people living enough has been great for four hundred twenty three tournament so it shows that the impact and power of football beyond boundaries and we all know what we can imagine is that the thinking behind the expanding of the next world cup. that the countries like vietnam all experienced was pleased and that do we will in youth level that they actually get up at unisa get into the work and play the yes that's that's exactly the purpose and the idea

on one side i think we will witness all of us that the level of football generally all over the world is growing the passion for football is asian thanks to media is. also everywhere in the world now if these teams who are growing qualify for the usual cups who make even some interesting results never have a chance to qualify for the main world cup just because of how the history has developed and the slots per confederation are. and have historically been been awarded well then we don't do what our main job is which is to develop football because we all know that the best catalyst for developing this success example i'm always giving is you know imagine that match last qualification edge and you. are striker. is in front of the

goalkeeper and shoots and he hits the post and the ball goes out the team is eliminated it's a big big disaster in the country for a country doesn't qualify for the world cup the coach will be sacked the president of that federation has to leave the kids they go to play rugby or other sports cricket or god knows whether other than football but if they say striker instead of hitting the post well he's still the boss but in the mall and visit to the net and you win that match in the ninety's minute changes the complete landscape of the country from october when the last match is a blaze until june when the world cup starts. you have an enthusiasm in the country the coach is a hero the presenter federation is a genius because he hired that course the players are all gods because they brought you to the world cup. and so on those and just this just because of a coincidence because of a goal or

a post that that can change the perception of people to football and we need to foster they said we need to foster the joy of trouble to give i'm smiling because i've been there yeah i've been exacting the situation actually i was a main character there and i'm just kind of hoping that this forty eight team idea would have happened back then. it would have been a. on a more personal. like me you you were a son of immigrants. left italy came to switzerland my father was polish came to denmark so how is that journey been for you we use enough sit right at the top of the footballing world that some journey has quite that's quite a journey that's right and i think to some extent being. the son of immigrants or being an immigrant. helps as well because

you grow up embracing different cultures different languages. and tearing into conflicts which existed in these times even more. than in switzerland certainly. and you're into it and you have to find always you know ways to get along who has always helped. to find dialogue to find ways to fog humans and fight as well but to do to bring together. the village were where i grew up where i was born i grew up this way said the dahlia and communities around around the bowl and the rug for the matches and you think. so this openness for diversity in different cultures and that is helping you in being free the president. yes i'm

convinced that this is this is helping when you are part of a minority in a place you and you want to be heard or you want a means of by yourselves while you need to have metal arguments that the others are at least that's the feeling you get but you need also to listen to the majority and and to understand the different dynamics so it opens certainly or your minds than it helps than when you grow to recognize that what people in different places think different they take differently they have different traditions and different. mentalities and and there's a come natural. that comes through today quite natural to me today yes when the. not. when i was growing up and we're for the different fights we were having all the time you develop and you

understand that it's not always you know your way or the way of your community that is the right one for from that point of view what we have seen already and what we can see what football can move for example and speak about development of women's football in some countries and i went to iran to speak about development of women's football with president rouhani now and criticized in western europe for going to iraq and speaking to the president of iran but for me as he thought president if i did go and if i don't speak to the president of iran to the authorities there about women's football and women's access and state of who is going to do it what do we achieve if we just criticize if we just dispute if we just argue if we block if we boycott what do we achieve in chief nothing if we go if we dialogue maybe we achieve only a little bit but even

a little bit is better than nothing and maybe which is nothing but at least we keep the dialogue and the discussion open and maybe one day we achieve or our successes or whether we'll achieve something thanks to my philosophy has always been and will always be like this because also us as we were saying before i grew up this way and switzerland as a country gives you this opportunity and to to grow and to make your way and to argue and to convince sometimes a bit more sometimes a bit less but that's only always with an open mind set the very hardest question i say that if i lost it's really i'm not in the world cup. in three or finish here so so growing up. speaking is it five languages you speak perfect more or less up in switzerland where you have influence from to germany to france and everywhere . and they're all there you know you have the whole. who is going to support that's

a tough one i support the referee so. far so good one hope no good the referees team will succeed by it's tough it's tough i think the wall dismissing and we'll miss you in the world cup the odds already are like your ideas as well and all these traditional teams who have made the history of the world cup. but this is the best job after that so how this ties in with with your idea about the smaller countries must have an opportunity yes so the bigger country needs they needs to say they need to stay on the game they conscious expect so but you still haven't answered my question which team i was supposed to. that mark it's a really good one i really. love that to see you in every every three at the beginning and then the next three as well and then obviously you are going to get

us the final so excited that i would do that was sure so. thank you very much and very very interesting everything so thank you very much for spending this time from now the brilliant thank you. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy people in front cation let it be an arms race based on often spilling dramatic and developing the only and dangerous business i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time. to sit down and talk.

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