We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

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

All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.