Factbox: Fifa figures arrested in Switzerland

Photo: Steffen Schmidt

Photo: Steffen Schmidt

Published May 28, 2015

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Washington - Brief biographies of the nine current and former Fifa officials indicted on Wednesday for racketeering, conspiracy and corruption.

JEFFREY WEBB (Cayman Islands)

Age: 50

Fifa Vice-President

President of Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) (since 2012)

Chairman of the Fifa Anti-Racism and Discrimination Task Force

President of Cayman Islands Football Association

EUGENIO FIGUEREDO (Uruguay)

Age: 83

Fifa Vice-President

Former president of South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) (2013-14)

Former president of Uruguayan Football Association (1997-2006)

JACK WARNER (Trinidad and Tobago)

Age: 72

Minister of National Security, Trinidad and Tobago

Former president of CONCACAF (1990-2011)

Former Fifa vice-president (to 2011)

Former president of the Caribbean Football Union (1990-2011)

* Resigned from all football posts on June 11, 2011, bringing an end to Fifa Ethics Committee procedures against him.

RAFAEL ESQUIVEL (Venezuela)

Age: 68

President of Venezuelan Football Federation (Since 1987)

Member of Fifa’s Disciplinary Committee

JOSE MARIA MARIN

Age: 83

Former president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) (2012-2015)

President of Local Organising Committee for 2014 World Cup

Former governor of Sao Paulo State (1982-1983)

NICOLAS LEOZ (Paraguay)

Age: 86

Former president of CONMEBOL (1986-2013)

Former member of Fifa’s executive committee (1998-2013)

Twice former president of Paraguayan Football Association

* Retired from all football posts for “health and personal reasons” in April 2013.

EDUARDO LI (Costa Rica)

President of Costa Rican Football Federation

Special advisor to the Organising Committee for the Fifa U-20 and U-17 Women's World Cups

JULIO ROCHA (Nicaragua)

Former president of Nicaraguan Football Federation (1990-2014)

Elected to CONCACAF Hall of Fame in 2009

Fifa Development Officer

COSTAS TAKKAS (Cayman Islands)

Former general secretary the Cayman Islands Football Association

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