Sepp Blatter: There is a ‘coup d’etat against FIFA’

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Sepp Blatter: There is a 'coup d'etat against FIFA'

Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter tells CNN's Alex Thomas his exit from soccer body was partly because Americans "try to be the police of the world."

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