Marco Polo Del Nero, Brazil’s top soccer official, was provisionally barred from the sport by FIFA on Friday. The move came two years after American authorities announced seven counts of corruption charges against him, and as he continued to avoid facing those charges in an American court by remaining in Brazil.
The decision was announced by the ethics committee of FIFA, international soccer’s global governing body, which has been slow to discipline officials implicated in the sprawling American case focused on world soccer.
Of the more than 40 people charged by the United States in 2015, Mr.