WATCH ABOVE: During a FIFA Executive Committee meeting in Zurich to set the date for the FIFA presidential emergency election, a demonstrator stands on stage hurling bank notes in protest.
ZURICH – Sepp Blatter’s news conference at FIFA was disrupted and delayed Monday by a British comedian’s stunt.
As Blatter took his seat, performer Simon Brodkin rose from a front-row seat to speak and shower the FIFA president with what appeared to be fake money bills.
The comedian also tried to disrupt a performance by Kanye West at the Glastonbury festival in Britain last month.
On Monday, he was ushered out of the auditorium at FIFA headquarters.
Blatter said he would leave the room because “we have to clean here first.”
“This has nothing to do with football,” said Blatter, who returned within a few minutes and quipped about the incident.
“I just called my late mother and she said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s just a lack of education,”‘ he said.
At an earlier executive committee meeting, FIFA set a Feb. 26 election date to replace Blatter.
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