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Ecuador's football president refuses to resign despite FIFA scandal

Xinhua, December 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Luis Chiriboga, president of the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) announced Friday that he would not resign amid the allegations surrounding his involvement in the FIFA corruption scandal.

   Chiriboga, who has had his position since 1998, told reporters that he would cooperate with the U.S. justice system so that his name would be cleared. 

   Since the FIFA corruption scandal broke in May 2015, the FEF president asked for the FEF accounts to be looked into, according to Chiriboga. 

   "Since the beginning we have told Ecuador's Attorney General's Office that we are going to cooperate with the whole investigation and today I confirm that. For that reason I want to say that I will not resign from the FEF," said Chiriboga.

   The FEF president was among the 16 current and former high-ranking Latin American soccer executives from FIFA, in a corruption case that has shook the organization.  Endi