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World cup is provided by FIFA. FIFA is a federation that controls world soccer.The FIFA president is Joseph. S. Blatter. At a round table event with journalists in Manchester, the FIFA President reiterated his desire to create a level playing field for football.Over 20 journalists from across the United Kingdom gathered at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester for a round table event with FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter on Wednesday 11 March 2009. The lively one hour discussion focused on a number of topics, including the Premier League, bidding for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, the protection of minors and 6+5. Blatter opened the meeting by thanking the journalists for their interest. He also revealed that he was in the city, not only to present Manchester United with the FIFA Club World Cup Champions Badge after their success at the FIFA Club World Cup in December 2008, but also in response to an invitation from Sir Bobby Charlton. The FIFA President and the former England FIFA
World Cup winner have a long history; they were opponents at the Blue Stars tournament in 1955 and will meet once more again when the Red Devils take on Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League. On the English Premier League I like England and I like English football; it has a great tradition and it is reiterated entertaining. It is the motherland of football. The Premier League is the best organised and marketed league in the world, but there is a situation now that the league is not typically English, especially when you look at the top clubs. In the past, clubs had a local, regional and national identity, but now that has gone. There seems to be a lack of balance. The richer clubs are taking all the players, while the others are battling just to survive. This situation is not exclusive to England, it's happening in Italy, Spain - even Switzerland, but in England it is much more dramatic. So, we have a problem of that there is a high concentration of the best players in the world playing in the Premier League.