Suspended FIFA chief Blatter in hospital – spokesman

Suspended FIFA chief Blatter in hospital – spokesman

Suspended FIFA chief Blatter in hospital – spokesman

Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter
has been hospitalised after being placed
under medical observation for stress, but
he is expecting to leave the facility early
next week, his spokesman said
Wednesday.
“He is now, at this moment, in hospital,”
Blatter’s spokesman Klaus Stoehlker told
AFP by phone. “He is preparing to leave
on Monday and will be back on the job
on Tuesday.”
Stoehlker added that 79-year-old Blatter
had “regained his good humour” and has
vowed to persist with “his fight against
the (FIFA) ethics committee” which
suspended him for 90 days over
corruption allegations.
Blatter, long the most powerful man in
football, suffered a medical incident last
weekend and had been placed under
medical observation from his home.
Blatter’s daughter Corinne has said that
her father had been forced to cancel all
of his appointments up to November 15.
Stoehlker previously said the stress-
related medical incident had been
brought on by the pressure the embattled
Swiss national has faced in recent weeks.
Blatter has been at the centre of the
worst scandal to ever hit world football.
Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal case
against him in September, an
announcement that led to his suspension
from FIFA.
Before he was suspended, Blatter, who
has been in charge of FIFA since 1998,
had said he would step down on
February 26, next year, when a FIFA
congress elects a new president.