LONDON — Chuck Blazer, the former FIFA executive committee member who has pleaded guilty to widespread corruption charges in the United States, was banned for life from soccer-related activities on Thursday by world soccer’s governing body.
Mr. Blazer, 70, a larger-than-life soccer power broker, pleaded guilty in November 2013 to a 10-count charge including racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion as part of an investigation into corruption in international soccer by American law enforcement authorities.
Facing up to 10 years in prison for failing to report foreign bank accounts and five years for tax evasion, he became a central figure in the investigation into the murky inner workings of global soccer.