Blatter hits out at U.S. authorities, UEFA


ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter has said that the events in the run-up to his re-election as FIFA president "do not smell right" and he was the victim of "hate" on the part of European football's governing body UEFA.

Blatter implied that it was not just a coincidence that Swiss police arrested seven leading football officials, including FIFA vice-president Jeffrey Webb, two days before the FIFA Congress and presidential election.

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