Sepp Blatter had no sooner been returned as president of FIFA when he took time Friday to thank his friends in the most remote and smallest of the six international football confederations.
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''We need more respect for the Oceanian confederation,'' Blatter said not long after being returned for a fifth term at the Zurich congress.