Richard Lai of Guam, Julio Rocha of Nicaragua and Venezuela’s Rafael Esquivel have been banned for life by football’s world governing body FIFA after they pleaded guilty to corruption charges in the United States.

All three were handed life bans by the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee.

Lai, a former member of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee who also led his country’s Football Association, pleaded guilty to two charges of wire fraud conspiracy in front of us district judge Pamela Chen in Brooklyn in April.

He revealed he had received nearly $1 million in bribes from a high-ranking sporting official.

Rocha, the former president of the Nicaraguan Football Association and a former FIFA development officer, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in December 2016.

He admitted receiving bribes in exchange for awarding contracts to companies for the media and marketing rights to FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.

Esquivel, a former president of the Venezuelan Football Association who also served as a vice-president of the South American football confederation, pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud conspiracy and three counts of money laundering conspiracy in November of last year.

The 71-year-old esquivel and Rocha were both arrested in dawn raids in Zurich in May 2015 and have since been extradited to the United States.