“There is something a little bit grotesque and unfair about all this because we are 100 percent confident that will never be a criminal charge, far less a criminal conviction, against the FIFApresident. But despite this, we have a situation, we have to acknowledge this, where objectively there is damage to both FIFA and to the FIFA president simply because of the existence of this criminalinvestigation and we think that’s not right, it’s not fair. Now we will cooperate fully with the investigation. We want to cooperate because we want the truth to come out and we want it to come outquickly.”
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