Blatter asks opera star Domingo to be FIFA adviser
LONDON— FIFA President Sepp Blatter says he has asked opera great Placido Domingo to join a new committee intended to help clean up world football’s governing body.
Blatter hopes the 70-year-old Spanish tenor will sit on a “council of wisdom” alongside former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and former Netherlands player Johan Cruyff.
Blatter told CNN on Monday that “these gentlemen are more or less advisers, they are not the experts.”
Defending the decision to approach the 88-year-old Kissinger, Blatter said: “He is an old man, but he is a wise man.”
The committee will have the power to investigate and suggest solutions to problems as FIFA recovers from a bribery scandal, which saw executive committee members Mohamed bin Hammam and Jack Warner suspended.
