Blatter: “Infantino is a dictator and we should send him to a psychiatrist”
The former president of FIFA, Joseph Blatter, He attacked his successor frontally, Gianni Infantino, calling him a “dictator” without “any limits” and suggesting that he be sent “to psychiatry” in an interview published Wednesday by the German magazine Der Spiegel.
“He is a dictator. People from FIFA tell me that no one has the right to go up in the elevator with him. It’s ‘untouchable,'” He affirms who was the strong man of world football, referring to the Italian-Swiss leader, who succeeded him in office in 2016 and seeks to be re-elected in the March 2027 elections.
“Infantino no longer knows limits. He doesn’t understand any of this. Maybe Infantino should be sent to psychiatry,” added Blatter when asked about his successor’s project, highly criticized and finally cancelled, to create a company in charge of managing the commercial activities of FIFA and the competitions it organizes, including the World Cup, and selling minority stakes to private investors.
Despite the commotion caused by this project, announced after a 2026 World Cup marked by controversy but commercially a success, Infantino, 56, remains the great favorite to be re-elected at the FIFA Congress to be held on March 18, 2027 in Rabat.
“Campaign in Asia at the expense of FIFA”
In this context, Blatter, who at 90 years old often criticizes his successor and fellow Swiss, accuses him of having done “campaign at the expense of FIFA” during a recent trip to Asia aimed at convincing the Asian Confederation (AFC).
Consulted by the France Press agency, FIFA referred to its response sent to Der Spiegel, in which it maintains that Infantino ““He exercises his functions as president through his travels.” and? “He also uses the FIFA elevator in the company of other people.”
Blatter, who was forced to resign at the end of 2015 after being swept up in a wave of scandals along with Michel Platini, then resident of UEFA and candidate to succeed him at the head of the FIF. Accused, among other charges, of fraud, both were definitively acquitted by Swiss justice in 2025.
