The Uruguay football association said on Tuesday it was preparing to rescind a television contract for the national team's 2018 World Cup qualifying matches, as the rights company involved has been targeted by a US investigation into corruption in world football.
"The matter is being studied by our lawyers, but everything indicates we're going to go down the road of cancelling it," the association's general secretary Alejandro Balbi said.
Uruguayan clubs voted last week to authorise the executive committee to get out of the contract if they deemed it necessary.
In a US Department of Justice indictment, the company ‘Full Play’ is said to have agreed to millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in obtaining rights deals. Full Play, run by Hugo Jinkis and his son Mariano, is a sports marketing and broadcasting company and has similar deals across South America.
The two men were among 14 football officials and business executives who were indicted earlier this year by US justice officials in a sweeping investigation into alleged bribery, racketeering and money-laundering that has rocked the sport's governing body, FIFA.
They have also been charged by Argentine authorities with tax evasion.