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.
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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.”
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“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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