Sepp Blatter accusations Sepp Blatter believes he would still be in charge of world football if he had succeeded with a secret plan to award the World Cup to the US The 79 year old blamed American and Swiss authorities for forcing him to give up power by arresting several senior Fifa officials and threatening to prosecute Fifa as a mafia organisation The US had decided to pursue Fifa he claimed after it was beaten in the race for the 2022 World Cup by Qatar It took a political dimension he said I am looking now to see what were the political reasons The easiest thing would be to say they are bad losers