ZURICH (AP) -- Within weeks of becoming a FIFA vice president, Jim Boyce was on a plane when he grasped the low regard in which soccer's leaders are held and the constant suspicion that they are corrupt.
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While lifting his bag into the overhead locker in the ninth row of a modest plane between Belfast and London, Boyce was hassled by a man behind him.