Swiss Sepp Blatter, the former President of FIFA, aged eighty-four, has left the intensive care unit after being in a coma for a week following heart surgery last December.
Corinne Blatter Andenmatten, daughter of the former FIFA president, stated in remarks to Swiss media: "He has left intensive care, but the road to recovery is still long due to the negative effects resulting from his confirmed COVID-19 infection at the end of December, which led to his transfer to a hospital where he was placed in the intensive care unit."
According to the Spanish newspaper "Mundo Deportivo", Blatter's daughter added: "The doctors are satisfied with his condition. It was the hardest birthday of my life."
She mentioned that Blatter has been under criminal investigation by Swiss federal prosecutors since 2015, and for health reasons, he was not informed that FIFA had filed a new criminal complaint against him last month concerning the funding of the World Football Museum in Zurich.
Blatter previously suffered health issues in 2015, and he was suspended by FIFA's ethics committee for the first time on suspicion of financial mismanagement. Notably, FIFA's current administration filed a criminal complaint against Blatter with the public prosecutor in Zurich as evidence of suspected criminal mismanagement by FIFA's administration.
