Fifa President Israel Vs. Palestine Match

Fifa president Sepp Blatter is currently visiting the Middle East to try to persuade the Palestine FA to drop a proposal to suspend Israel from the world body, on Tuesday proposed a peace match between their national teams. Blatter appeared at a news conference in Jerusalem after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said he was “on a mission of peace”. Although Blatter declined to detail what was said in his meeting with Netanyahu and Israeli FA chairman Ofer Eini concerning the Palestinian agenda item at the Fifa Congress on 29 May, he said he could reveal his plan for a “peace match“. He added that Netanyahu promised he would attend such a fixture but, with enmities between Israelis and Palestinians running high, it is hard to envision such a match taking place in the foreseeable future.