A staffer at FIFA has reportedly been arrested in Miami on suspicion of having sex with an underage boy while on a work trip from Zurich.
FIFA is aware of ongoing legal proceedings in Miami in relation to a private matter of a person that is employed by FIFA, the world soccer body said in a statement Wednesday. FIFA has no further comment at this stage.
The Miami Herald reported Jack Coles was detained Friday by federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations at a hotel near FIFA's offices in the Coral Gables neighborhood.
Coles is a project leader with FIFA Sound, the department that organizes music for the soccer body's events and broadcasts.
Coles, who is British and reported to be aged 39, is alleged to have met a 14-year-old boy through a men's dating app last October, and allegedly tried to meet with him again last week. The boy reportedly told the FIFA staffer he was 16, and was later in contact with federal investigators.
FIFA opened a United States base in Coral Gabl