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Soccer-FIFA scandal unlikely to affect U-20 World Cup - organisers

Yahoo! Sports | May 28, 2015

Related Topics: FIFA, New Zealand, Zürich, Wellington, Reuters

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By Greg Stutchbury

WELLINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - Officials involved in FIFA's under-20 World Cup moved to distance themselves from the governing body's political and legal issues on Thursday by talking up the tournament scheduled over the next three weeks in New Zealand.

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