65th fifa congress
Blatter did not speak to US investigators, lawyer says
Sepp Blatter was banned for six years by Fifa’s own ethics committee at the height of a scandal engulfing world soccer’s governing body in 2015.
Gianni Infantino is confident of taking more than half the votes from Africa in Friday’s Fifa election.
Some of the arrests took place in the same hotel where Fifa officials were arrested in May.
The former human settlements minister will oversee relations between the two countries’ football federations.