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

What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.

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

Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

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

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.