Placido Domingo to become part of FIFA "council of wisdom"

PanARMENIAN.Net - Embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter has turned to opera singer Placido Domingo to help restore the tarnished image of soccer's world governing body. The Spanish-born tenor will form part of a "solutions committee" which also includes former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Netherlands forward Johan Cruyff.

"These gentlemen are more or less advisers. They are not the experts but advisers, and what they should be also is the kind of council of wisdom -- which my Executive Committee would not like because they think they are the council of wisdom," Blatter, who was voted in unopposed for a fourth term as president last week, told CNN in an interview Monday.

Blatter secured another four years in charge of FIFA after a vote in Zurich Wednesday and immediately pushed through changes intended to make the choice of World Cup hosts more democratic and beef up the fight against corruption, Reuters reported.