Security questions have been raised following the terrorist attack on the Togolese national team before this year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.
“It's kind of an anti-Africa movement, this is not right,” Blatter told news agency DPA. “There is still in the so called 'old world' a feeling that why the hell should South Africa organise a World Cup. Why the hell?”
“It was easier for them to go down to Africa, the colonialists in the past hundred years, to take out all the best, and now to take out all the best footballers. And when you have to give something back they don't want to go. What's that? It is a lack of respect, a lack of respect for the whole of Africa.”
Blatter also singled out remarks by Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness that awarding the games was the “biggest wrong decision” FIFA has ever made.
“In Germany people like Uli Hoeness and also representatives of the professional leagues are saying we should not go there. But every year eleven million tourists go to South Africa and nobody says they should not go there. Last week an ATP tournament was played in Johannesburg, and they didn't die.”
