NEW YORK: Twelve jurors and six alternates were selected at the FIFA corruption trial in New York on Thursday (Friday in Manila), tasked with deciding the guilt or innocence of three fabulously wealthy and once powerful South American soccer officials.

The impanelling of the jury clears the way for prosecutors to begin opening statements next Monday, two and a half years after they unveiled what is the largest bribery scandal in the history of the world’s most popular sport.

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