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Meal vouchers and water feed FIFA jamboree as austerity bites

MIAMI, As the princes, sheikhs and diplomats who would rule world soccer filed into a Miami airport hotel it struck an incongruous tone, a world away from the opulent jamborees of popular myth.

There were no gilt thrones to hand, nor velvet curtains hanging heavy. Instead, a small group of around 50 men - the men who will help elect the next FIFA president - settled down in rows of cheap seating.

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