Meet Olé, his wicked pen and new book, a hilarious view of Sepp Blatter The Man with the Golden Balls

By Andrew Jennings

The Book Blatter hates

Olé Andersen knows the inside stories of FIFA. When he hung up 

his boots after playing for clubs in Switzerland and Denmark Olé 

took his other skills, as a graphics artist, to work for Sepp Blatter 

designing everything from tournament trophies to FIFA books.

When Olé quit, sickened by the corruption and dismayed, even 

as an open-minded Dane, by some of the cavorting under the 

FIFA duvets, Herr Blatter discovered Olé's other skill: Creating 

lively cartoons revealing that when the Emperor of Football has 

no clothes  - it is a ghastly sight. But very funny as Blatter's balloon 

of pomposity is punctured repeatedly

When Blatter learned that Olé's book of cartoons was imminent he 

responded with typical FIFA transparency. He sent his lawyers to a 

Zurich court in late 2013 claiming that their client  “has a good 

reputation and if the cartoons were published he would never 

be able to repair the damage.”

Stop laughing.

Blatter gives Olé a red card

The Zurich court banned the cartoons.

It didn't cost Blatter a penny because he claimed that if he was lampooned, FIFA was damaged. So FIFA's Finance department paid the legal bill to protect Blatter's vanity.

The courtroom wrangling continued into January 2014 as Olé, now living in Lucerne, fought for his freedom of speech - and his cartoons.

Blatter was especially upset by Olé's plan to call his book 

The Platter Cartoons. In Danish slang plattenslager is a rascal, 

a scamp, a scallywag.

In November 2014 a higher Zurich court allowed publication. 

A week before the Brazil World Cup The Blatter Cartoons, 

now an ebook, was uploaded to Amazon. Two days later the

FIFA-funded lawyers persuaded Amazon to take the book down,

claiming that it was in the middle of litigation.

Blatter sues Olé

The freedom fight continued. Olé had to pay a 500 Swiss Francs

penalty - or go to jail. He was forced to remove another cartoon 

showing Blatter as a rotten egg. This followed a comment by world 

football's leader, "We have no rotten eggs in FIFA."

Eventually Blatter was privately advised that he was making a 

fool of himself and wasting FIFA money. But the Judge in charge

of the case told Olé, "Blatter has never done anything

legally wrong.”

So Olé shows him as an angel in the new book, The Man

with the Golden Balls.

Sepp's low-life friends

The cartoons cover Blatter at 

World Cups going back to Argentina 

1978, remind readers of Blatter's close

associates, now discarded deadbeats,

Jack Warner, Chuck Blazer, Ricardo

Teixeira, Mohamed Bin Hammam 

and Joao Havelange and illustrate

some of Blatter's more memorable

gaffes and his inability to control

his roving eye when young women

are in view.

Dictator note . . . Blatter was most upset by 

a cartoon showing him in the role of Charlie 

Chaplin's Great Dictator. See Olé's response!

"The Man with the Golden Balls"

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