United Passions, a movie which paints Sepp Blatter as a moral crusader but has been branded as "squirm-inducing propaganda," has bombed at the box office.
FIFA has scored an embarrassing own goal as widely derided vanity film United Passions collected just $607 in its first two days released in the U.S.
The film's release had coincided with an avalanche of corruption claims and bribery allegations following the indictment of 14 football figures by the FBI ahead of the FIFA presidency election May 28.
Considering the plot paints Sepp Blatter - who resigned as FIFA president in the aftermath of the arrests in Zurich - as an upstanding moral leader as it chronicles the history of the world football governing body, Frederic Auburtin's directorial effort has been ridiculed for the timing of its release date in the U.