PARIS – Sepp Blatter promised US$25 000 for the goalkeeper shot and badly injured in the terror attack on Togo’s team bus at the Africa Cup of Nations in January.
Kodjovi Obilale says he received a letter from the Fifa president this weekend. Blatter wrote that the money would come from a Fifa humanitarian fund.Obilale says he has struggled to get help from Togo and the Confederation of African Football (Caf), which organised the competition in Angola. He wrote to Blatter in August asking for his assistance.Obilale, speaking Monday, said Blatter wrote that Fifa could not be held responsible for the ‘tragic’ attack, but that it will still ‘continue to study this dossier’. Obilale was shot twice in the back. – Nampa-AP
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