Soccer’s governing body is among protesters’ targets as Brazilians stage the country’s biggest street demonstrations in two decades. Being the focus of fury goes hand in hand with running the world’s most-popular sport, according to its top administrator. “I don’t think the goal of FIFA is to be loved by the world,” FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke said in an interview at his organization’s temporary offices facing Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach. “As long as you have this responsibility to protect the game, to make decisions which are not always the nicest ones for some people, I’m not sure you can avoid criticism.” While the three-week protests that have drawn more than a million...
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