LAHORE, March 11: President of the world soccer governing body (FIFA) Joseph Sepp Blatter will inaugurate the FIFA Goal Project in the city on March 27, a spokesman for the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) announced.

Blatter will arrive in Islamabad on March 26 and meet President Gen Pervez Musharraf.

The next day, he will inaugurate the Project, which has been completed at a cost of US$675,000.

The FIFA had provided US$460,000 to the PFF for the assignment.

Blatter will leave Pakistan the same day.

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