“Just arrived in Sochi,” Joseph Blatter tweeted on Tuesday. “Looking forward to meeting my friends and colleagues from the Olympic community before Sochi 2014.”
The FIFA President is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member. So he will attend the IOC Session that precedes the Winter Olympics, the first to be chaired by Thomas Bach, the recently-elected IOC President.
There will no doubt also be opportunities to catch up with Russian officials, including perhaps President Putin himself, on preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be hosted for the first time by the world’s biggest country.