President, Joseph Blatter, is in hospital with an undisclosed illness
but insists he will not quit.
His adviser, Klaus Stoehlker, disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Zurich.
"He is in the recovery stage, the doctors say that he can work again
from next Tuesday onwards," Stoehlker said.
He did not reveal the reason for Blatter's hospitalisation but said
"he told me that his head and heart are ok."
Blatter, 79, was last week told by doctors to rest and was
hospitalised at the weekend, according to Stoehlker.
It would be recalled that Blatter and European Football Association
(UEFA) President, Michel Platini, were provisionally suspended for 90
days on Oct. 8 by FIFA Ethics Committee in connection with a "disloyal
payment"
Blatter was also suspected of mismanagement in one other case in a
Swiss criminal probe.
The embattled president and Platini had said they were innocent and
appealed the ruling.
It was gathered that if the appeal fails, he may approach the Court of
Arbitration for Sports as he seeks to stay on the job as planned until
an extraordinary FIFA congress set for February, 2016.
"I am the elected FIFA president; I was elected by the 209 member
federations of FIFA and no commission in the world can remove me,"
Blatter said recently.
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