Sepp Blatter, Fifa president unable to travel to Canada for Women’s World Cup final which will take place on Sunday. Due to “personal reasons” he will not be present at the final of Women’s World Cup.
The 79-year-old Swiss had wanted to go to the match in Vancouver, regardless of Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke hauling out of the opening ceremony.
Two criminal examinations concerning claimed Fifa defilement are progressing.
Richard Cullen, Blatter’s lawyer, said the senior vice president of Fifa Issa Hayatou would be present at the match instead.
Fifa said Blatter – who is allegedly under scrutiny in the United States – and Valcke would stay at Fifa headquarters “due to their current commitments in Zurich”.
Blatter became the president in 1998. It will be the first time since then that he will not present the trophy to the World Cup winners.
In May, Blatter was chosen for a fifth term in charge, however, has following proposed he no more has a command to lead the sport’s world representing body.
He says he has not surrendered from his position and is thought to be considering remaining for re-election at a crisis meeting of the official executive committee in December.
On May 27th, seven officials of Fifa were arrested after a dawn incursion on an extravagant hotel in Zurich.
They were included among the fourteen officials and accomplices who were charged by the United States authorities on extortionist and bribery charges.
Swiss agents have also commenced an individual criminal investigation about how the rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups are going to be awarded.
