The examination of the idea of an age limit and a duration of possible mandates within FIFA will not be on the menu as planned at the Congress, scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Mauritius, but was postponed until 2014 Congress in São Paulo, FIFA said on Tuesday. No consensus having been found, the football institution therefore decided not to decide. It is now asked “the Congress (which brings together the 209 federations making up FIFA) to put these questions back on the 2014 agenda with concrete proposals”. FIFA President Sepp Blatter, 77, re-elected for a fourth four-year term in 2011, spoke out against the principle of the age limit on Monday. In January, in a joint declaration, the UEFA federations, on the other hand, recommended an age limit of 72 years.
— Published on May 28, 2013
