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FIFA to meet without suspended Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini

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Image: FIFA's Executive Committee will meet without Sepp Blatter for the first time in 40 years

The FIFA Executive Committee will meet on Tuesday for the first time since Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were suspended from all football activities.

The meeting, which will be chaired by acting FIFA president Issa Hayatou, will be the first of its type without Blatter for 40 years following his 90-day suspension earlier this month. 

Swiss prosecutors raided Blatter's office during the last executive committee meeting in September, questioning Blatter and Platini as part of an investigation into football corruption.

At Tuesday's meeting, the committee members will discuss reform proposals and amendments to FIFA's ethics code which would make it easier to find out who is being investigated by the Ethics Committee.

Although it is not on the agenda, the executive committee is also expected to decide whether the presidential election should go ahead as planned next February.

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One man who will be centre of attention is Sheikh Salman of Bahrain. The president of the Asian Football Confederation is expected to announce this week that he is running for the FIFA presidency.

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