FIFA president Sepp Blatter distanced himself from his executive committee on Tuesday, saying he did not choose them and could not say whether they were angels or devils. His remarks came after former English football association chairman David Triesman accused four FIFA executive committee members — Jack Warner, Ricardo Teixeira, Nicolas Leoz and Worawi Makudi — of asking for favours in return for their votes for England’s 2018 World Cup bid.
“I am the president and I have my own conscience, I can only answer for myself, I cannot answer for the members of my committee,” Blatter, who stands for re-election at the FIFA Congress on June 1, told reporters. “They are not elected by the same Congress that I am elected, they are coming from the others (elsewhere), so I can not say they are all angels or all devils.”
