Now that Sepp Blatter has won his fifth term as president of FIFA, defying all common sense that the leader of a corrupt sport should be ousted instead of rewarded, he can move on to the next big event on his calendar: the Women’s World Cup.
That tournament begins on Saturday in Canada, and Blatter will surely use it to try to shine through his most recent tarnish while the women do all the work. What else would you expect from a man who recently declared himself to be “the godfather” of FIFA women’s soccer?
The thing is, painful as it is to admit, there is some truth to Blatter’s hyperbole.