Pinnick meets with Hayatou — Federation Internationale de Football Association Presidential race

Africa’s number one football administrator, who is world -governing body, FIFA’s only Senior Vice President, spoke at length on the unity in CAF – which insinuates that CAF would only support a candidate which has Africa’s interests at heart, for the forthcoming FIFA presidential elections.

The Democratic Alliance said the two men should be investigated over a payment of $10 million by South Africa to Jack Warner, a former Federation Internationale de Football Association executive indicted by United States authorities on charges of bribery and racketeering and now facing extradition.

That had previously been scheduled to take place on December 17-18 in Japan, which hosts the Club World Cup and where Blatter could risk arrest.

The agenda for the congress will be approved by Blatter’s executive panel in a two-day meeting in Zurich later this week. Del Nero chairs that committee, which reportedly met on Monday without him.

Blatter has denied any wrongdoing and blamed individuals from football’s continental confederations for implicating FIFA in corruption. Grondona died a year ago .

The 49-year-old former striker, a 1994 World Cup victor , has moved into politics and is staunchly anti-corruption.

“A second letter from Oliphant to Federation Internationale de Football Association in March 2008 shows that he too instructed the payment of the $10 million”, said the DA.

Blatter shocked the soccer world on June 2 with the announcement that he would lay down his mandate. Some lawyers with experience in worldwide criminal cases have said Blatter would be ill-advised to travel after the USA indictments were announced.

FIFA’s ethics committee, which can re-open its own investigation of 2018-2022 bidders if significant new evidence is unearthed, has its request considered to ease secrecy rules about its work.

The 69-year-old from Cameroon was well beaten by Blatter in the 2002 election, which was held after a corruption scandal and financial crisis provoked by the collapse of ISL, a marketing agency which sold World Cup broadcast rights.