What is the most important issue facing FIFA?
Social responsibility. Throughout the world, football has become such an important phenomenon that we need to demonstrate our sense of responsibility towards society at large. That starts with players and includes clubs, leagues, referees, national associations and continental confederations, who work on behalf of football and on behalf of the important role it plays now in the world. What about the role of the World Cup in all of this? You can see that the World Cup in Germany last year left a great legacy, and not only in financial terms it showed that football can be a source of positive energy radiating throughout the world. We want to keep it that way. Doubts have been raised about South Africa’s capability to host the World Cup in 2010. What do you think? Barring a natural disaster, South Africa will be staging the World Cup in 2010. The only back-up plan we have is South Africa, and the back-up plan to the back-up plan is South Africa. Should we have that natural disaster, howev
