Sep Blatter

The suspended FIFA President was bestowed the chiefly title of Toleafoa while on a visit to Samoa and the playing arena was named the Toleafoa Joseph Sepp Blatter Football Fields in his honour.

FFS President Laupama Tokan Solomona says Blatter is taking his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, so they will wait until everything in FIFA is settled before discussing the issue.

Thomas Bach, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, told journalists attending the 128th IOC Session in Malaysia that Blatter had sent him a letter last month informing him that his mandate as FIFA President would come to an end on February 26, when FIFA would elect a new head.

For this reason, and because he was unable to attend the Session, Bach went on, Blatter did not think it appropriate that he be proposed for a new IOC mandate.

Bach told IOC members he had written to Blatter to "thank him for his outstanding service".