FIFA to reinstate Egypt’s FA

Blatter

FIFA will take steps to reinstate Egypt’s Football Association, suspended by Egyptian government after 74 people died in violence at

FIFA will take steps to reinstate Egypt’s Football Association, suspended by Egyptian government after 74 people died in violence at a match in Port Said, FIFA chief Sepp Blatter said on Sunday.

Blatter, attending an extraordinary congress of the South American Football Confederation at its Paraguay headquarters, said the EFA’s suspension after Wednesday’s violence was a direct intervention into soccer affairs which FIFA could not accept.

“The information we have received at FIFA confirms the number of dead as 74. It was also confirmed that the (Egyptian) government intervened directly by suspending the (country’s) football association,” Blatter told a news conference.

“We are going to take up the case from tomorrow (Monday) so that this association is reinstated because it is the (body) that has the responsibility to organise the competitions and it must carry on (its work),” the president of world soccer’s governing body said.