"Every World Cup has its own history and its own culture," he told 5 live's Sportsweek in an exclusive interview.
"It was a World Cup in a new continent with new culture and therefore it must be analysed on different levels.
"If you look at the enthusiasm in South Africa and the TV audiences around the world then it was a special World Cup."
Speaking ahead of Sunday's World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands - the climax to the first World Cup held on African soil - Blatter insisted the world's governing body could not be blamed for those games that had been unattractive to watch.
"If you say poor football I do not agree, this is a question of the performances of the teams - they can play football, if the coaches decide to play, and not lose," said Fifa's 74-year-old president.
"Every World Cup has its own history and its own culture," he told 5 live's Sportsweek in an exclusive interview.
"It was a World Cup in a new continent with new culture and therefore it must be analysed on different levels.
"If you look at the enthusiasm in South Africa and the TV audiences around the world then it was a special World Cup."
Speaking ahead of Sunday's World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands - the climax to the first World Cup held on African soil - Blatter insisted the world's governing body could not be blamed for those games that had been unattractive to watch.
"If you say poor football I do not agree, this is a question of the performances of the teams - they can play football, if the coaches decide to play, and not lose," said Fifa's 74-year-old president.
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Sunday said a government cannot be run only by those who know how to build roads, rebuffing Transport Minister Kamal Nath's charge that the plan panel was an "armchair advisor". "My view is that you cannot run a government only related stories
Kamal Nath calls Plan panel 'armchair advisor'
with people who know how to build roads. You have to give them a set of rules..." Ahluwalia told CNN-IBN.
Nath had hit out at the Planning Commission on July 5, describing it as an "armchair" advisor oblivious to the ground realities of building roads.
"Producing a book is one thing and producing a road is another thing," he had said at a Planning Commission programme.
While Ahluwalia agreed that "building roads is certainly different from writing guidelines," he said, "we are not an implementing body. Equally, it does not mean that you (ministries) don't need advise. I mean accountants are not people who build roads but you cannot build roads without having decent accounts."
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