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Rafael Esquivel
Venezuelan former football administrator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rafael Esquivel Melo (born 1946/1947) is a Venezuelan former football administrator. He was a member of CONMEBOL executive committee and president of the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF).
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Career and arrest
Esquivel was president of the Venezuelan Football Federation from 1988 to 2015.[1]
Esquivel was arrested in May 2015 in Switzerland to face corruption charges in the United States.[2] He was banned by FIFA Ethics Committee for life.[3][4]
In March 2016, Esquivel was extradited to the US and pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court.[5] He was released from jail on a US$7 million bond.[6]
In popular media
Chilean actor Gonzalo Robles portrayed Esquivel in the 2020 Amazon Prime Video original series El Presidente.
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