In an interview with Swedish newspaper Expressen back in July, Blatter was asked a number of questions about life and football in general. 

The 81-year-old spoke about women's football, and how he is the "architect of women's football in FIFA". 

Blatter mentions how football is the perfect sport for women to play around the world, before bizarrely attacking the Socceroos, who he had watched play in the Confederations Cup in Russia a day earlier. 

Here is the full transcript:
 

Interviewer: How do you view the development of women’s football under your reign?

Blatter: “I am the architect of women’s football in FIFA. It was after the FIFA congress in Mexico in 1986 that we, or I, launched everything and organised the first ever tournament in China, two years later. You have this wonderful woman who coached the US national team?”

I: Pia Sundhage.

SB: “They won the World Cup and the Olympics.”

I: Yes.

SB: “But women just have to be able to play football. In all cultures and all religions. I have seen with my own eyes how women play with or without a scarf over their heads. In some countries, Muslim countries for example, women don’t have the same civil rights as in the Western world. So, football is good for the women. Women want to play team sports as well. What is there to choose from? Basketball, volleyball and handball. Handball is too athletic. Basketball and volleyball? If you aren’t tall, you shouldn’t play. Short, tall, thin and broad: Anyone can play football.

“In men’s sport it’s different, because the athletes are so big. Like in the Australian national team. I saw them on TV yesterday. They looked like a rugby team. Some of their players were overweight. They need to work out more. They need to run more.”