Sepp Blatter never played professionally, but he did play as a striker at an amateur level for a number of years in Switzerland.

According to Fifa's official website, Blatter's career spanned 23 years from 1948 (this is presumably including youth football as he would have been 12 at that time) to 1971 - most, if not all of which was spent with his hometown side FC Visp.

"I scored a lot of goals," boasted Blatter to interviewers from CNN as they filmed a television documentary about him in 2006. "That's not a false modesty it's really true, especially at the youth level."