The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!

I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.