The former head of the Costa Rican soccer federation pleaded guilty

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolinas athletic department reported 23 violations of NCAA or Southeastern Conference rules in the past year, nine involving the football team.All but one of the infractions were classified as Level III and outlined by the NCAA as violations isolated or limited in nature; provide no more than a minimal recruiting, competitive or other advantage; and do not include more than a minimal impermissible benefit.South Carolina released its infractions report this week from an open records request by The Associated Press. The time period is from August 2015 through July.Six of the nine violations involving football came since Will Muschamp took over in December. One, though, occurred when ex-coach Steve Spurrier told reporters that the daughter of a former NFL player was visiting campus.The names of athletes or coaches involved were not included in the documents.Most violations are far from those that bring splashy headlines and put schools on probation.The violation of SEC guidelines was when a football quality control coordinator used a headset while in the press box to talk with coaches on the field. The school suspended the quality control coach for one game and the SEC took no additional action, according to the schools documents.In February, a restaurateur classified as a Gamecocks booster was handed a phone by a prospects uncle to leave a voicemail for the prospects father. The next month, a former South Carolina player posed for pictures with two prospects on unofficial visits.In both cases, the school provided those involved with additional education and the NCAA accepted those remedies without taking any additional action.There are two football violations pending, one in May where a football player was found to have gotten impermissible transportation for three-and-a-half months and another in June where prospects got impermissible lodging on an unofficial visit.In the first, South Carolina declared the player ineligible and made to pay restitution to charity. In the other, the school provided those staffers involved with addition rules education and requested relief from NCAA penalties.Three infractions were not classified to the football program yet involved the sport.In October, a chapter of the Gamecock Club booster group posted an internet link to a story detailing a prospects verbal commitment to South Carolina. In February, a football manager worked with the team while not enrolled as a full-time student. Also that month, an ex-Gamecocks player wrongly re-Tweeted a prospects post before he had signed a letter of intent.All the schools corrective actions were accepted by the NCAA.Among other sports, the three-time SEC womens basketball champions reported four infractions. One involved a player getting transportation, meals and lodging while not eligible to play. The school declared the player ineligible and made to donate costs of the impermissible benefit to charity.The NCAA imposed additional penalties for one womens basketball violation after an assistant coach texted a 2019 prospect with the same first name as a current player they intended to text. The NCAA banned South Carolina from electronically corresponding with that prospect for two weeks. Chaussure Grossiste Chine . 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Air Max 95 Femme Pas Cher .C. -- Chris Thorburn thinks one of the reasons the Winnipeg Jets have been successful under new coach Paul Maurice is that theyre playing together as a team. NEW YORK -- The former head of the Costa Rican soccer federation pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and other charges accusing him of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to award lucrative marketing contracts.Eduardo Li became the latest soccer official to plead guilty in a scandal thats shaken FIFA, the sports governing body. Its believed several of the officials are cooperating in the sprawling U.S. investigation.Appearing in federal court in Brooklyn, the 57-year-old Li detailed through a Spanish interpreter several schemes in which he pocketed a fortune in under-the-table payments between 2007 and 2015 in exchange for using his authority to influence soccer-related business deals.In one deal, Li said he was offered $500,000 to award marketing rights for qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup, scheduled to be held in Qatar. He said he ended up getting $300,000, which he channeled to the bank account of a business partnner to pay a real estate debt.ddddddddddddIn another, he said unnamed intermediaries in Panama gave him $237,000 in cash to give a U.S. company the rights to sponsor uniforms for the Costa Rican national team.I knew it was wrong of me to accept such undisclosed payments, Li told U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen.Li also admitted embezzling $90,000 in funds related to hosting an international girls soccer tournament in Costa Rica.He faces up to 20 years in prison but could receive much less time under sentencing guidelines. He has agreed to forfeit $668,000.Li, who was arrested last year in Zurich, is among about 20 soccer officials indicted in the corruption case. More than a dozen have pleaded guilty, while another eight are fighting extradition from overseas.No sentencing date was set for Li, who remains free on bail. ' ' '