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Gareth Nicholson

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£1.7bn: Current forecast for Fifa's overall profit from the World Cup, with all income from broadcasting, marketing and tickets channelled out of South Africa.

0: Amount of tax that Fifa – a Swiss-registered charity – will pay on the £1.7bn.

World Cups don't make you rich, folks. Unless you live in Geneva.
 
Apr 19, 2006
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Doesn't Blatter have quite a few family members with various financial "interests" in the game though (IT contracts, advertising etc.)? I'm sure there's been numerous mentions about it in mags like Private Eye.