Russian president met with president of Federation of Internationalof Football Assosiation Swiss Joseph Blatter and general secretary of Russian Football Union (RFU) Vitaly Mutko.
Blatter informed that he carried out productive negotiations with head of RFU, representatives of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries and 3 Baltic states about organization of CIS football tournament. "It is important to develop football, - noted Blatter. - Association of football organizations should be created for realization of this purpose".
"As head of FIFA I apply with this problem to you, - said Blatter. - European Union exerts too much influence on organization of football tournaments and football in general on territory of EU. It wants to expand this influence on all territory of Europe".
"Imperialism in football", - noted Putin.
"It couldn`t be that 25 EU countries would dictate own rules to remaining 207 states, - emphasized head of FIFA. - Football is of universal, global importance".
"On FIFA congress we decided to examine the situation and charged Vitaly Mutko, who plays important role in appropriate committees of association, to prepare results", - informed FIFA president.
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