“I have not been hiding,” Blatter told reporters at a reception Friday in Rio de Janeiro, hosted by Russian World Cup organizers. “I have just not been speaking too much.”
He finally emerged from his lair for the final match and was spotted chatting with Putin – most likely enquiring if he could borrow a few tanks and guns and stuff to help him clinch the FIFA elections next may.
What he received from the crowds in the meantime was the rasberry.