ZURICH — At dawn on Wednesday, Sunil Gulati, the president of U.S. Soccer, woke with a start, his phone buzzing on the desk of his room at a luxury hotel here. A police raid was quietly going on in the halls around him, and some of Gulati’s closest professional colleagues – a few of them his friends – were being arrested on various charges related to corruption. The calls and texts did not stop for hours.
Gulati, who is also a member of FIFA’s powerful executive committee, said his emotions were mixed as he read and talked about the news.