By Akinwale Kasali
Joseph Sepp Blatter, former World Soccer Governing Body President, FIFA, who was disgracefully ousted from office due to corruption allegation has been hospitalised.
He was reported to have been rushed to hospital by a Swiss newspaper, but it was revealed by other media that the disgraced official’s life was not in danger.
“My father is in hospital. He’s getting better every day. But he needs time and rest,” his daughter Corinne Blatter Andenmatten was quoted as saying by Blick, which said the 84-year-old was in a serious, but non-life-threatening condition.
“On behalf of my family, I ask for privacy,” his daughter said.
Blatter was removed from office in 2015 after 17 years at the head of world football’s governing body.
He was suspended from football for six years over a two million Swiss franc payment to then UEFA boss Michel Platini in 2011.
Blatter and Platini are now being investigated for alleged “fraud” and “breach of trust” in Switzerland, a source with access to the probe said in November 2020.
