The crowd alternated chants of "M-V-P" and "Let's go Islanders" as the home team trudged off the bench and lined up for the traditional post-series handshake line.
The influential global football supremo urged other national associations to replicate the all-seater stadiums and lack of fences, saying the crowd problems which forced the abandonment of Tuesday's Italy v Serbia international in Genoa were unlikely to have happened in England.