国际足联主席致歉世界杯冠军意大利

FIFA chief Sepp Blatter Monday apologized to Italy for not presenting them the 2006 World Cup trophy. 

Speaking at an Azzurri reunion celebration, Blatter admitted he had been wrong not to come down from the stands and hand over the trophy after Italy's victory over France, according to the local media reports.

摘要： 国际足联(FIFA)主席布拉特(白礼达)周一为自己未能在德国世界杯决赛后亲自向意大利颁发奖杯,向意大利致歉。

"History will say that it was a mistake...and it was in fact a mistake," Blatter said, in his first explicit public apology.

Blatter reiterated his claim that a decision was made before the match not to expose FIFA's top dignitary to the possibility of jeers from the predominantly German crowd.

Blatter's no-show has been an issue since the World Cup, and there have been conflicting reports about whether he was on the presentation roster or not.

Many commentators took his decision as a sign he did not think they were worthy winners - or possibly as confirmation of FIFA's distaste for Italy's Calciopoli match-fixing scandal.

Note:present v.颁发 hand over 移交 explicit adj.直率的  reiterate v.反复地说
predominant adj.卓越的  roster n.名单 be worthy (of) 值得