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Opera legend Domingo joins FIFA 'council of wisdom'

June 6, 2011
Placido Domingo has joined FIFA as an adviser © Getty Images
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Sepp Blatter's fight to halt FIFA's problems has made a rather adroit turn with the choice of Placido Domingo as adviser.

Domingo will join 88-year-old former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and ex-Holland international Johann Cruyff as the governing body seeks to rid itself of claims of corruption and double-dealing.

Blatter told CNN: "These gentlemen are more or less advisers, they are not the experts but advisers. They should be a kind of 'council of wisdom' which my executive committee would not like because they think they are the council of wisdom!

"I have also contacted the Spanish singer... Placido Domingo - he is happy, he is proud that he is part, and Kissinger also. People say he is an old man, but he is a wise man."

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