Sepp wants his COLLECTION back. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/sports/sepp-blatter-watches.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The article goes on to note that he isn't the only FIFA honcho with watch truoble: Luxury watches have had a strangely outsize role within soccer circles, bringing down officials and leading to embarrassing revelations. In 2014, for example, FIFA struggled to persuade members to return dozens of $26,000 wristwatches distributed to them by the organizers of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. And after he was arrested in the 2015 scandal, one former FIFA official secured his release from custody, in part, by turning over 11 watches and his wife’s wedding ring. Just last month, Reinhard Grindel, the president of Germany’s soccer federation and a member of FIFA’s governing council, was forced to resign after it was revealed he had accepted a designer watch from a Ukrainian colleague.
So long as there are corrupt people in Qatar willing to pay millions in bribes to get the World Cup, there will be people who accept them. It’s the “golden rule” in action. gatorcpa