Fifa will update its executive committee members this week on the corruption investigations under way in the US and Switzerland, which involve some of them.
The reluctance of football’s governing body’s outgoing president Sepp Blatter – who is an expected target of both federal cases – to visit countries that have an extradition treaty with the US appears to have affected Fifa’s business schedule.
Blatter will chair the two-day session, which is set to start on Thursday.
Fifa says the executive committee will decide the date and place of its next meeting on Friday. That had previously been scheduled to take place on 17 and 18 December in Japan, around the Club World Cup, and where Blatter could risk arrest.
The body says this week’s meeting will approve an agenda for the extraordinary congress in Zurich on 26 February, when Blatter’s successor will be elected. Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, who was defeated by Blatter at the election in May before the Swiss decided to step down, announced earlier this month that he intends to stand again.
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