FIFA works out compromise with Poland soccer federation

BRUSSELS: FIFA president Sepp Blatter said here on Monday he was happy a dispute which left Poland's football federation (PZPN) under threat of being suspended for its next two World Cup qualifiers was now over.

And the chief of world football confirmed that an independent commission will on Tuesday start working to replace an administrator, Robert Zawlocki, who was put in place by the Polish sports ministry after their sacking of the PZPN president.

However Poland's sports minister Miroslaw Drzewiecki later on Monday said he would be waiting until at least Friday before any action is taken.