Cameroon’s Issa Hayatou and Spain’s Angel Maria Villar will take over as interim heads of football’s world and European governing bodies following the suspension on Thursday of Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini.

"Issa Hayatou, as the longest-serving vice-president on Fifa's executive committee, will serve as acting president of Fifa," said a statement from world football's governing body."

Fifa’s statutes say that the most senior vice-president will stand-in for the president of the organisation. That position is currently held by Hayatou, president of Africa’s football confederation (CAF).

Spanish Football Federation president Villar is positioned to take over from Platini as he is the European governing body’s highest-ranking vice-president.

Villar has been widely reported to be facing a Fifa ethics investigation himself related to Spain’s joint bid with Portugal for the 2018 World Cup. Fifa’s ethics committee is not allowed to confirm or deny the existence of any investigations.

In 2011, Hayatou was reprimanded by the International Olympics Committee’s ethics commission after he confirmed to them that he was paid by Fifa’s former marketing agency International Sport and Leisure in 1995.

The IOC said such an action constituted a conflict of interest. Hayatou denied any personal gain or wrongdoing.

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