Farah Addo ordered to pay damages to FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter – FIFA suspends financial support for Somali Football Federation

Zurich, 12 March 2003 - The court injunction prohibiting the President of the Somali Football Federation, Farah Addo, from continuing to make defamatory statements about FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter has been upheld in full by the District Court of Meilen (Switzerland). The court further ordered Addo to pay damages of CHF 10,000 to the FIFA President, and to assume the court costs and the costs of the parties in the amount of CHF 14,948.