NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former official of soccer's world governing body FIFA pleaded with a U.S. judge on Wednesday to allow his release on bond after having spent nine months in Swiss and U.S. jails.
Eduardo Li, who was a member-elect of FIFA's executive committee when he was arrested in Zurich in May, said at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, that he would not flee if he were released pending a possible trial.
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