Ex-Costa Rican soccer chief banned for life by FIFA

ByReuters

Published 21/04/2017 at 13:35 GMT

April 21 (Reuters) - The former president of the Costa Rican Football Association, Eduardo Li, has been banned from the game for life by FIFA's independent Ethics Committee, the organisation said on Friday.

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Li, who was also a former member of the executive of CONCACAF, the regional confederation for North and Central America, pleaded guilty in a U.S federal court in October to taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

(Reporting by Simon Evans; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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