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Ecclestone defends FIFA boss Sepp Blatter

Ecclestone defends FIFA boss Sepp Blatter Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has defended Sepp Blatter's record as FIFA president and questioned why the 79-year-old Swiss should have to step down from the scandal-mired football body. Ecclestone decried criminal proceeding against FIFA head, Sepp Blatter, in an interview with Russian TV network RT SophieCo program, saying that corruption was the price football had to pay for becoming the most popular sport on the planet. “I don’t think he (Blatter) should have ever stepped down,” Ecclestone told the show’s host, Sophie Shevardnadze, during the F1 Russian Grand Prix in Sochi over the weekend. “I don’t think he should have ever...
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