Sepp Blatter Cup Quotations

The Iraqi footballers have overcome testing times to win a qualifying berth for next year's Asian Cup finals in China and their coach has shown a lot of courage to continue on the job,

Then we should take only the players that want to go to the World Cup but then ask to the players if they want to go to the World Cup or not.

The red alert is on for Germany's World Cup committee.

The FIFA World Cup is the perfect platform to send out this message to the whole world of football as people all around the globe will follow the 64 matches in Germany. The stars of the tournament will serve as role models for hundreds of millions of other players around the world. So it is all the more important that Germany 2006 sets a positive example.

There are different proposals. It certainly will be a mix of the performance from the last World Cup and the world rankings.

The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.

They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!