GENEVA: Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter spent a week in an induced coma after having heart surgery in December, his family said Thursday (Friday in Manila).

The 84-year-old Blatter, who also tested positive for Covid-19 late last year, was well enough only this week to be moved out of intensive care at the hospital in Switzerland.

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