Welcome to a special edition of the SI Planet Football Soccer Podcast. We have a special guest here today.

His name is Jeremy Shapp.

He is the terrific reporter for ESPN, who, among many, many other things, has recently

done an hour-long look for E60 at Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president, 79 years old, who is about to win his fifth four-year

term as FIFA president on May 29th.

Very controversial figure, most powerful figure in sports, many think.

And a couple quick things before we start with Jeremy here, this can be seen again on E-SPN2 on Wednesday, May 20th, 11th, Pacific, and on ABC, Saturday, May 23rd at 3 p.m. Eastern. And it's also available available online if you go to my Twitter feed Grant

Wall you can see all five parts that are available.

Jeremy Schap thanks for joining me.

It's a pleasure sir sir, to be here.

I noticed a year from Kansas City and you didn't mention Central Time, you know, you've just

moved on to a coastal existence.

It's all right, I understand.

I understand.

That's where we are. So first off

congratulations, just a tremendous piece of work. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Yeah, I don't want to take all the credit. Trust me. I mean I do want to but I shouldn't want to take all the credit trust me I mean I do want to but I shouldn't

there was a great team behind this some really talented producers who really

work very hard on it and and as what is typically happens the reporter gets more credit

than he deserves but as I said willing to take. Well the timing was great on this and

I'm sure that this was why it came out when it did that May 29th is the FIFA election.

Even though there are three challengers still for Seth Bladder this time around,

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