Sepp Blatter has been admitted to hospital and will remain there until next week, after suffering a "small emotional breakdown".
The embattled Fifa president, whose organisation has been engulfed by corruption allegations, intends to continue fighting the football ban imposed by Fifa's ethics committee despite his health, his advisor has said.
"He is now, at this moment, in hospital," Klaus Stohlker, Blatter's spokesman, said. "He is preparing to leave on Monday and will be back on the job on Tuesday."
Stohlker added that 79-year-old had "regained his good humour" and has vowed to persist with "his fight against the (Fifa) ethics committee" which suspended him for 90 days while he remains the subject of a criminal investigation in his native Switzerland.
"His most important message is that he is fully preparing himself to go ahead with his fight against his 90-day suspension. He is deeply convinced that the ethics commission cannot force him out," Stohlker added.
"He said to me yesterday 'I was elected president by the 209 members of the Congress and no commission can put me out of the game'. He's fighting against this suspension."
Blatter, who has led the world governing body since 1998, suffered a medical incident last weekend and was placed under medical observation at home. His daughter, Corinne, said that her father had been forced to cancel his appointments up to Sunday.
Stohlker previously said the stress-related medical incident had been brought on by the pressure that the Swiss national has faced in recent weeks.
Blatter has been at the centre of the worst scandal ever to hit world football and Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal case against him in September over what they describe as a "disloyal" £1.35 million payment made to Michel Platini, now the Fifa vice-president, in 2011.
Stoehlke said Blatter had felt faint at an event in his native canton of Valais and "felt that his body was not working as it should be".
He had received "many visitors, but I am not allowed to give names because it is also highly political," Stoehlke said.
Under the terms of the suspension, Blatter is not allowed into the Fifa headquarters or any football stadium in an official capacity.
Fifa has been in turmoil since 14 soccer officials and sports marketing executives, including two Fifa vice-presidents, were indicted by the US in May.
Blatter won a fifth mandate in May just after the corruption scandal erupted with police raids on a hotel used by top FIFA officials. Four days later, as pressure mounted, he called a new Congress, in Zurich in February, to choose his successor.
In September, the Swiss attorney general's office initiated criminal proceedings against Blatter over a 2 million Swiss franc ($2.1 million) payment from Fifa to Uefa president Platini.
Both men have denied any wrongdoing. Blatter has said he still hopes to take part in the Congress in February and Platini still intends to be a candidate in the presidential electio
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