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Charles Gordon Blazer served as a FIFA Executive Committee member from 1996 to 2013 and held the position of CONCACAF general secretary from 1990 to 2011. He began coaching youth soccer in Westchester County, New York, after his son started playing the game in 1976.
Blazer began working undercover for the FBI in December 2011 following allegations of bribery made during a May 10 meeting of the Caribbean Football Union. This cooperation led to the arrest of several FIFA officials in Zurich on the 27th of May 2015.
Blazer admitted to conspiring with other FIFA Executive Committee members to accept bribes linked to the selection of 1998 and 2010 World Cup hosts. His guilty plea included charges of racketeering, wire fraud, income tax evasion, and money laundering.
FIFA imposed a lifetime ban on all soccer-related activity against Blazer on the 9th of July 2015 due to his involvement in accepting bribes and financial misconduct. A forensic audit determined he had received US$15 million in commissions without a written contract between 1998 and his departure.
Charles Gordon Blazer died on the 12th of July 2017 at a New Jersey hospital at the age of 72 from colorectal cancer. He also suffered from coronary artery disease and diabetes at the time of his death.