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http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015...n-sepp-blatter

The Baur au Lac hotel, a five-star palace on the banks of Lake Zurich, has always been Ground Zero for the stench that pervades FIFA, soccer’s world governing body. With its $4,000-a-night suites, the Baur au Lac hosts the biggest of soccer bigwigs when they come to Zurich, the home of FIFA, for major events like this Friday’s FIFA presidential election.

The timing of the arrests makes perfect sense. With the FIFA election taking place this week, all the top soccer officials from around the world were gathering in the same place, most of them staying in the same hotel. The key for the FBI was getting cooperation from the Swiss government in making the arrests and setting up those indicted for extradition to the United States.

Unsealed indictment notes that guilty pleas have already come in from Blazer, Warner’s two sons and Brazilian-owned Traffic Sports. Those are the people the FBI has turned or will turn.

The question now is how high up this investigation will go. Will the 14 people arrested on Wednesday have the goods on Blatter himself? And will the stunning events really change FIFA? Plenty of open questions remain, but May 27, 2015, will be remembered as the day the federales finally came for FIFA.

http://www.bauraulac.ch/en/home.html

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