
A former Costa Rican soccer federation president, who was arrested last year in a U.S. corruption probe involving the sport's global governing body FIFA, is expected to plead guilty on Friday, according to court records. Eduardo Li, who is also a former member of the executive committee for the North and Central American and Caribbean soccer confederation, CONCACAF, is set to appear in federal court in Brooklyn for a plea hearing, court records show. A lawyer for Li did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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