Rafael Salguero

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Rafael Salguero Sandoval (born December 3, 1946 in Guatemala ) is a Guatemalan football official.

By profession he was a lawyer between 1976 and 1990, President of the Guatemalan Football Association . From 2007 to 2015 he was a member of the FIFA Executive Committee . He was re-elected by CONCACAF in May 2011 for a second four-year term until 2015.

In 2016, Salguero was arrested in the United States. After cooperating with the authorities, he was placed under house arrest. Salguero pleaded guilty to corruption. He was convicted in 2018, the sentence is considered served by the two-year house arrest. In April 2020, the US Department of Justice announced that Salguero had received a $ 1 million bribe for his vote in the election of Russia to host the 2020 World Cup in Russia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SALGUERO SANDOVAL Rafael - Guatemala. FIFA, accessed July 16, 2011 .
  2. ^ Warner re-elected president of CONCACAF. (No longer available online.) CONCACEF, May 3, 2011, archived from the original on May 9, 2011 ; accessed on May 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.concacaf.com
  3. ^ Former FIFA officially sentenced to time served in bribery scandal. In: NBC. December 6, 2018, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ US Prosecutors Say Qatar and Russia Bribed FIFA Officials to Win World Cup Bids. In: New York Times. April 6, 2020, accessed on April 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Salguero, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guatemalan football official
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Guatemala