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Munich -- Joyful rays from a winter sun flooded through the windows, and radiators working at responsibility added to the toasty atmosphere. Yet the temperature seemed to drop markedly when the most contentious field in soccer politics came up for debate. The two powerful men sitting next to each other at the head of Bayern Munich's surface table were expected to project a unity of purpose in a briefing for cosmopolitan media on Monday; but to the surprise of some listeners, they voiced fundamentally opposed views about FIFA.
One of the men in consideration b questionable, Adidas CEO Herbert Hainer, was broadly speaking in support of the soccer's governing assemblage and its embattled president, Sepp Blatter. Hainer forcefully rejected suggestions that his crowd's sponsorship of an organization dodged by persistent allegations of corruption was damaging the make.
"We work together with our partners and talk to them to behind the curtains, we don't shout (criticism) in celebrated," he told SI.com , calmly.
Source: SI.com