FIFA President: Future World Cups will be 'interplanetary competitions'

FIFA President: Future World Cups will be &#039;interplanetary competitions&#039;

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last updated 8 January 2015

The World Cup in Brazil hasn't even kicked off yet, but that hasn't stopped FIFA President Sepp Blatter from thinking of out-of-this-world ideas for future games. Yesterday, the embattled figurehead told the FIFA Congress that he predicts that someday, a World Cup competition will be held on another planet.

"We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet," he said, perhaps jokingly. "Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup, we will have interplanetary competitions. Why not?"

This isn't the first time Blatter's comments have raised the eyebrows of onlookers. In 2004, he said women's soccer should have "more feminine uniforms... tighter shorts, for example."

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.