Former FIFA president Joseph Blatter said Thursday he no was no longer suffering as a result of the corruption scandals which led to his six-year ban from football.
"I did suffer. Christ's Passion was also suffering, but I am no longer suffering," he said in Zurich at the presentation of his new biography.
Blatter said he can "live with all because I have a clean conscience. I have done nothing wrong."
Blatter, 80, was banned by FIFA's ethics committee over ethics breaches concerning a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs (about 2 million dollars) made to UEFA president Michel Platini in 2011.
But the former FIFA boss, who is appealing against his ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, described it as "conspiracy" by US justice authorities
In the book, Sepp Blatter: Mission and Passion Football, Blatter says his successor as FIFA president, the former UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino, once applied "without success" for a job at FIFA's legal department.
According to the book, Blatter was also asked by the Swiss foreign ministry last year to mediate with Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza over his decision to run for another term, which had sparked months of unrest in Burundi.
Blatter was quoted as saying he offered Nkurunziza an ambassadorial role with FIFA in exchange for dropping plans to run for a third term, but nothing came of it.
