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Football’s world governing body FIFA has more influence than any religion, its president Joseph Blatter has said in a Swiss newspaper interview.
“FIFA is more influential than any country in the world and every religion due to the positive emotions it releases,” Blatter told Sonntags-Zeitung.
“We move masses. We want to use this to create more peace, justice and health in the world.”
Blatter, 79, said if he was re-elected FIFA president at the FIFA Congress on May 29 he would continue the federation’s reform process.
“We have to do everything to raise FIFA’s credibility,” he said.
Blatter said he wants to continue as FIFA president “because the majority of the federations” wanted him to stay.
“I believe in God and I believe in myself. That’s why I can fulfil my duties independently of age,” he said.
Blatter is seeking to win a fifth term in the May 29 election in Zurich.
Former Portuguese international Luis Figo, Netherlands Football Association chairman Michael van Praag and Jordan Football Association president Prince Ali bin al Hussein are the other candidates.
All three have been backed by various European federations.
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