Blatter Eyes Football Pundit Career After Retirement

Sepp Blatter

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has opened on his plans after his retirement saying after he steps down from the office of the number one football body in the world he will be going into the business of football analysis.

Blatter who has been occupying the position since 1998 intends to analyse matches both on television and radio.

Given his longstanding aversion to technology, it is also unclear how Blatter would fare with Sky’s studio gadgetry but the 76-year-old said he planned to “live a dream he had when he was a young boy” and work in the media as a “radio commentator or reporter”.

When it was suggested he could become a Sky Sports pundit, he replied: “I would comment on the games but I would not say ‘now he passes right or left’ because everybody can see that on TV, but I would make my comments on tactics or techniques.”

Blatter was controversially re-elected unopposed in 2011 for his fifth term as president and said at the time that he would retire in 2015 but he had recently hinted he could go on. Yet in an interview with Sky Sports he insisted that he would leave Fifa at the age of 79.