FIFA scores own goal
United Passions, a movie which paints Sepp Blatter as a moral crusader but has been branded as "squirm-inducing propaganda", has bombed at the box office.
FIFA has scored an embarrassing own goal as widely-derided vanity film United Passions collected just €546 in its first two days released in the US.
The film's release had coincided with an avalanche of corruption claims and bribery allegations following the indictment of 14 football figures by the FBI ahead of the FIFA presidency election on May 28.
Considering the plot paints Sepp Blatter - who resigned as FIFA president in the aftermath of the arrests in Zurich - as an upstanding moral leader as it chronicles the history of the world football governing body, Frederic Auburtin's directorial effort has been ridiculed for the timing of its release date in the US.
United Passions is reported to have had a budget of €20 million and included renowned actors such as Tim Roth (as Sepp Blatter), Sam Neill (as former FIFA president Joao Havelange) and Gerard Depardieu (as World Cup founder Jules Rimet).
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