FIFA's new chief ethics investigator Swiss attorney Cornel Borbely speaks during an interview with Reuters in Zurich March 4, 2015. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
ZURICH (Reuters) - Younger than some professional footballers, Swiss attorney Cornel Borbely is at first sight an unlikely choice as the man to step into Michael Garcia's shoes and try to keep corruption out of FIFA.
A disillusioned Garcia, the former U.S. attorney with a long track record in complicated, international, high profile cases, resigned in December, saying he felt he was no longer making progress and that football's governing body "lacked leadership."
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