GENEVA (Reuters) - It will probably be a matter of just months before seven senior FIFA officials arrested in Switzerland can be extradited to the United States to face corruption charges, Swiss legal experts said on Friday.
The men, all from the Latin American and Caribbean region, are being held at undisclosed detention centres following their arrest at a Zurich luxury hotel on Wednesday. The move sent shock waves through world football's governing body FIFA and its sponsors.
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