they say israel have been discriminatory or racist as the palestinian futbol association are calling and saying five teams from israeli futbol league are in illegal settlements which contrave contravenes, fifa rules. he is there to set a compromise and ward of a vote on may 29th at fifa congress in europe which could mean israel could be kicked out of world futbol if complaints from the palestinian futbol association are found to be valid. you mentioned he met with president netanyahu yesterday. we don't know much, but we know there was talk of this so-called peace match between the two sides. but that does seem unlikely because yesterday the palestinian football association reiterated their intention to press ahead with the vote. so a very difficult time for president, facing re-election next week. he thinks this is an important issue. speaking during the press conference yesterday he said he was on a mission for peace. take a listen. >> futbol has the the power to connect people, futbol has the power to construct bridges. i am coming here and going to your neighbors, or inside the

your recent piece talks about the palestinian futbol association's attempts to have the israeli futbolociation, you know, somehow sanctioned for the way it treats palestinian futbol players. could you talk about that? dave: yes sanctioned or expelled since apartheid south africa was asked to leave because of its practices. these changes are happening as i'm speaking to you. there are changes going on. israel from what i'm hearing is relentog what has been a blockade preventing players in gaza from traveling freely to the west bank. that's what the palestinian futbol association is charging israel with. they say they're choking out their ability to develop soccer because of the way they get in the way of free movement of players, free movement of coaches and perhaps the most damning accusation towards the israeli football association is that they have created and formed five or six, depending on reports, clubs in the occupied territories in the settlements of the west bank, so it's israeli football association using soccer as a way to take land that should rightfully be part of a possib

many of the 209 national futbol association chiefs will probably have made up their mind before they got into the hole. the fact that he got 73 votes. could have taken it to a second round, the election, but chose to quit, to spare us all after a long week, frankly. it would have taken us to 9:00, 10:00 at night at that stage. thought the writing was on the wall. thought it was a credit to prince ali, he got that far really. at least, futbol had a debate. blatter had such a stronghold on power for so many years. not only once before in four previous elections was he challenged for it since winning from the uefa president, in 1998. so, prince ali did his best. he wasn't quite the figure that, that made people unite behind him. blatter has got a lot of supporters. i think he is actually on a real high, blalter th eblatter. saw it arrive before any one else this morning. and hear what he has to say later. >> wait and hear from him. alex thomas, thank you. >> as we have been reporting. fifa's election was closely watched around the world. nic robertson also in zurich where he went behind

be strongly punished the few involved in the futbol, the fans the clubs, the police or the futbol associationresponsibility for the growth and violence, the corruption, the poor safety procedures and the great number of deaths. passion of futbol fans is well-known and most simply want to watch the game. >> translator: there are a few who cause problems but we all end up paying the price, the club and the players. >> translator: i believe they should replay the match behind clothes doors but the game should be played and boka might be thrown out of the cup but believe they should keep playing. >> reporter: argentina has already suspended this week's domestic futbol fixtures in mourning for a death in a freak accident of a young minor league player. but violence here is endemic with organized gangs of supporters known as the brava. >> translator: the truth is it's difficult to see a solution unless there is a political solution. we also live if a society which is going down hill and where the laws are increasingly ignored. >> reporter: argentina continues to produce great ballers like mesi and

fifa president sepp blatter digs in heels as europe's futbol association pressures him to resign after corruption, blatter deflected any blame for the scandal today. >> many people hold me ultimately responsible for the actions and the reputation of the futbol community. i cannot monitor everyone all of the time. if people want to do wrong they will also try to hide it. melissa: he's kidding right? i'm talking to dow manager of the "wall street journal" and legal analyst lis wiehl people dare to hold me ultimately responsible. that's not fair i'm only the president. i'm only in charge. isn't that his job? the buck stops with him. >> because he's swiss or living in switzerland, in the united states people know enough not to say i was in charge and i'm not responsible and people do bad things, they'll try to hide them until the prosecutors catch up. this is one of the organizations like the international olympic committee that answers to no one and started in the 20th century as little organizations they have grown into multimillion dollar global enterprises with obviously no tight overs

he's had also talked about the europe 15 futbol association, uefa.in the vote and critical of mr. blitzer himself. he feel that's europeans have a calculate campaign. and perhaps we'll hear more of this in the press conference. perhaps we'll hear him explain precisely why he believes he's thing. but, of course, again, what the world wants to hear is how he plans to clean up the image of fifa which he promised to do yesterday. we may get details, george. >> so, nic, the 14 people who they indicted, mr. blatter is not one of them, that has happened now we're seeing certainly you could call it the politicizing of mr. blatter. stating his terms what he believes is the nature of this investigation and others who are critical of the organization but one question still remains, is there concern that sepp blatter himself could be arrested with this investigation set to get under way? >> reporter: that really seems to be a very open question at the motel. and certainly, what we've heard from the fbi, from the u.s. department of justice, is that their investig

the futbol association ignored the order and kicked off the new season anyway and police refused thend the league ground to a halt after just two games and the governing body fifa warned them to back down but they suspended them and all domestic futbol has been cancelled the rest of the season and thousands marched in protest and could cause the national team for playing and qualifying for tournaments like the 2018 world cup. defending european champions madrid will travel to face the first leg of the semi final on tuesday and madrid have won the trophy on four occasions including last year against madrid and aiming to be the first time in the chomp yanukovich champion league to retain the trophy. >> we have players and injuries but we are able to replace them really well and so we have confidence we will go to another final and we are trying to do our best. >> reporter: meanwhile looking to reach their first final since 2003 confidence is high, they won their fourth straight title on saturday and they are unbeaten in 12 european matches at home. >> translator: as i always say nobody

time for more sport and here is robin with a huge day for fifa. >> dominating in world futbol and 209 member associationso decide who will lead the governing body and the congress is taking place now and blatter running for a fifth term of president despite the arrest of seven leading futbol people on corruption charges and jordan had a warm welcome as he arrived at the congress earlier. >> translator: the events of wednesday unleashed a storm and it was even questioned at one point in time whether this would take place or if the agenda might be changed. today i am appealing for unity and team spirit so that we can move forward together. it may not always be easy but it's for this reason we are here today together to tackle the problems that have been created. we are here to solve them. >> live to andy richardson in zurich and when are we likely to know the outcome of this election? >> it's not going to be a quick process, robin, blatter joking at the start of proceedings saying this could go to saturday morning and we thought it would start voting but it's not electronic, individual members go up with a

game, 209 national football bowl association bosses that flew from every corner of the globe here to switzerland, to take part in that vote, friday, and there were futbol media and fans, also australia, europe, and asia and other parts of the concacaf region and the caribbean where blatter is still really popular. that's why he got 183 votes, prescription ali only got 73. blatter is seen as an endorsement, even though he gives himself a bit of a shock and also a reformer. >> alex, as this investigation gets underway is there a concern among delegates that blatter himself could be arrested? >> reporter: i think there is concern about that. that's probably why the vote was so close. at the start of the week, prince ali had enough votes to take the elegislation to the second round. i think, quite frankly, to spare us all, george, to such a long week, another two or three hours to that laborious process that we saw, it would inevitably been a blatter victory. but it was good that the challenger took the debates that far. as you said in your introduction with the twin investigations going on in the united states and here in switzerland, and both camps sayin