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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter in hospital

On July 20, 2015 shows then FIFA president Sepp Blatter gesturing during a press conference at the football's world body headquarter's in Zurich [AFP]

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been taken to hospital, a Swiss newspaper said Thursday, but media insisted the disgraced official's life was not in danger.

"My father is in hospital. He's getting better every day. But he needs time and rest," his daughter Corinne Blatter Andenmatten was quoted as saying by Blick, which said the 84-year-old was in a serious but non-life-threatening condition.

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