CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - FIFA vice president Issa Hayatou said the arrest of officials from world football's governing body in Zurich last week at the behest of the U.S. Justice department should have been carried out on American soil.
He questioned the timing of the arrest of seven officials in dramatic dawn raids last Wednesday, on the eve of the contentious FIFA Congress where his close ally Sepp Blatter was re-elected.
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