Associated Press Sports
updated 7:12 a.m. ET Sept. 23, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The referee involved in Italy's contentious elimination from the 2002 World Cup faces sentencing in his New York drug smuggling case.
Federal prosecutors have said Byron Moreno could face up to 20 years in prison. His sentencing was scheduled for Friday in Brooklyn.
Moreno was arrested last year at Kennedy Airport after arriving on a commercial flight from his native Ecuador. Authorities say they discovered bags of heroin attached to his body during a routine search.
He pleaded guilty in January.
Moreno became a hated figure in Italy due to several decisions in the second-round loss to South Korea at the 2002 World Cup.
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