FIFA: UEFA request the postponement of the congress and propose elections "in the next six months"

"The members of the UEFA Executive Committee are convinced that there is a strong need for a change to the leadership of this FIFA and strongly believe that the FIFA Congress should be postponed, with new FIFA presidential elections to be organised within the next six months" stated UEFA upon completion of an extraordinary meeting of its Executive Committee in Warsaw (POL), before the final of the Europa League between FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (UKR) and Sevilla FC (ESP) -- won by Sevilla 3-2 -- on 27/05/2015.

Eugenio Figueredo (Uruguay) and Jeffrey Webb (Cayman Islands), two of the eight vice-presidents of FIFA, and five other leaders of international football were arrested in Zurich (SUI) on 27/05/2015, following extradition requests made by United States, on the eve of the opening of the FIFA Congress (28 and 29/05/2015), in which the president of the international federation for the 2015-2019 period will be elected.

UEFA stated it would meet in the morning on Thursday 28/05/2015 in Zurich (SUI), with the national federations in Europe to "decide on what further steps need to be…