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Eduardo Li was in clear view on the quiet side street as he was bundled into an unmarked police car, one of seven FIFA officials arrested as Swiss police swooped on the Baur au Lac hotel at the behest of American authorities. Years of investigations into soccer corruption burst into public view on the morning of May 27 as the so-called ''World Cup of fraud'' was exposed and FIFA would be coerced into cleaning up its act. Li, the Costa Rican federation president who was in Zurich expecting to join FIFA's elite executive committee, was a lesser-known target of the U.S. case.
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