The E60 report on FIFA pretty directly implicated him in corrupt culture but also portrayed him as an extension of the previous President. He was the General Secretary since 1981 and was groomed to succeed João Havelange. Blatter and Havelange oversaw the rise of the World Cup to its current popularity, largely through bribing smaller member states. The reform candidate in the 1998 election was narrowly defeated. His election was influenced by bribery, I believe from the same Qatari man who brought the World Cup there for 2022. So Blatter probably made things a lot worse. The whole special is on ESPN.com if you aren't one of those people who bitches about ads and in general about video not downloaded off of BitTorrent. It's worth watching but I was expecting it to be more about the Nepalese slaves building up Qatar which I'm more interested in as a news story and I'd like to see covered more.