Blatter called on Europe to take an example from Russia in the limit on foreign players

The FIFA President believes that other national associations of the Old World should adopt the experience of the Russian Federation in the implementation of the limit on foreign players in their championships.

As the Daily Mail With reference to the material of the Swiss in the weekly magazine FIFA, the head of the International Football Federation asked the rest of the European championships to use the restriction on the simultaneous participation of foreign players to six people with five local performers.

This limit has recently been in effect in the Russian Premier League, where the “7+4” scheme previously existed. Blatter has long promoted the idea of ​​the first model with the aim of “respecting local talent”, but has faced resistance from UEFA, which defends the right of labor to free movement.

The FIFA President draws attention to the fact that in the English Premier League, foreign players received 77 percent of playing time last season.

Earlier, the president of Russia Vladimir Putin offered to give the Blatter Nobel Prize.

The Swiss himself spoke flatteringly about Putin, saying that the entire Russian people can be proud of such a ruler.

Against the loudest scandal in the history of world football, Blatter resigned four days after his re-election. After he changed his mind and began to actively try to save his post.

May 26 in Switzerland were detained several major functionaries of the International Football Federation. The US Justice Department estimated the scale of corruption in FIFA at ten billion dollars.