Corruption crisis: UEFA, FIFA call off friendly match

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini will avoid coming face-to-face on Friday amid the football corruption scandal after a UEFA-FIFA match was called off.

Blatter, the FIFA president, would usually travel to Platini’s UEFA headquarters in Nyon for the friendly.

But FIFA told The Associated Press: ”In a joint decision it was agreed to postpone the UEFA-FIFA challenge 2015, which had been scheduled for Friday, 2 October, until further notice.”

The game would have come a week after a criminal investigation was opened into Blatter in part over a payment in 2011 to Platini.

Platini is being treated ”between a witness and an accused person,” Swiss authorities say.

The rift between Blatter and Platini widened recently when UEFA complained to FIFA about a document being distributed attempting to smear its president.