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Johansson has a dig at Blatter
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September 18, 2010, Saturday
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FORMER UEFA President Lennart Johansson believes goalline technology has no place in football, saying the game is for "humans and not for robots." The 80-year-old Swede, who held European football's top job for 17 years, also had strong words about FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
He said that the standard of play in matches between Europe's top club teams is higher than at the World Cup, but he was still surprised by the lack of quality on show at the recent World Cup in South Africa.
"It was nothing that you will remember," Johansson said. "The tempo, the technique and the scoring was not what I expected."
Johansson was still UEFA president when South Africa was awarded the continent's first World Cup. He said that he backed its bid early on after his fears about organization and security were allayed.
Blatter has praised South Africa's hosting of the tournament, but Johansson said Blatter wasn't always so supportive of taking the World Cup to Africa.
"The one who was against Africa at the time was Sepp Blatter. He was strongly against it," said Johansson, before adding that Blatter only changed his mind "because of this award he was given by the United Nations, not because he liked the idea to go to Africa."
Johansson said his successor as UEFA President, Michel Platini, had made the right decision by rejecting calls for the introduction of technology to determine whether the ball crossed the goalline.
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