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Tonight, executive members form the Football Federation of Belize are in Zurich Switzerland for the 65th Congress of FIFA. While they are there to elect a president for the most powerful governing body in all of sports, the event, and FIFA itself has been shaken to its foundation by the seismic events of the day – where top FIFA executives were arrested in their rooms by Swiss Police. They are under indictment for wire fraud, money laundering and other serious offences that reek of corruption, long rumored to dominate FIFA's politics.

Belize's delegation includes, President, Ruperto Vicente, secretary General Michael Blease and senior vice president, Sergio Chuc. On Friday they will vote on the new president, whether to re-elect Sepp Blatter, or elect his challenger Prince Ali Hussein.