Warner to FIFA: You’re destroying the Caribbean region Former FIFA vice president and CONCACAF president Jack Warner sent FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his organization a Christmas present on Friday and as you can guess, it wasn’t gift wrapped with pretty bows. In a critical, seven-page statement about international soccer’s governing body, Warner claimed FIFA [...]
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Posted on 30 December 2011.
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Most dominant Test side ever
Posted on 30 December 2011.
The Invincibles, Lloyd’s West Indians, Waugh’s Australians and others are in the mix. Who’s on top? S Rajesh This is one of the favourite topics for debate among any group of cricket diehards: which is the best team to have played Test cricket? It’s a topic which, quite justifiably, elicits strong opinions: does Bradman’s team [...]
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PM Spencer and Sports Minister Quinn-Leandro congratulate Antigua & Barbuda national team on FIFA World Cup Qualifier victory
Posted on 25 November 2011.
Prime Minister the Hon. W. Baldwin Spencer and Hon. Dr. Quinn-Leandro, the substantive Minister responsible for Sports in Antigua and Barbuda sent messages of congratulations to the National Football team on their victory on Friday night, November 11, 2011, against Haiti in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium. In [...]
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FIFA charges 10 more Caribbean officials
Posted on 26 October 2011.
Montserrat Football bosses get roped into FIFA/CFU bribery scandal FIFA’s ethics committee has opened proceedings against 10 more Caribbean football officials, relating to the cash-for-votes scandal. Four members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) were banned on 14 October. The officials will have their cases heard in mid-November, world football’s governing body said in a [...]
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Four Caribbean FIFA officials banned after bribery probe by ethics committee
Posted on 14 October 2011.
By Sportsmail Reporter MailonLine:The fall-out of from the FIFA bribery scandal has claimed more scalps after four officials from the Caribbean were given bans of varying lengths by FIFA’s ethics committee. Franka Pickering from the British Virgin Islands, one of the few female heads of a national association, has been banned for 18 months and [...]
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Jack Warner claims Fifa conspiracy against Caribbean officials after bribery video leak
Posted on 14 October 2011.
The former vice-president of the organisation has hit out at footage of him encouraging officials to accept cash gifts, branding it a deliberate attempt to undermine the CFU By Livio Caferoglu Goal.com: Ex-Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has insisted that the leak of a video urging officials to accept bribes from Mohamed Bin Hammam is proof [...]
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Video Allegedly Shows Caribbean Soccer Officials Being Pressed Over Gifts
Posted on 14 October 2011.
WSJ Blogs Corruption Currents By Samuel Rubenfeld Updated below A newly released video allegedly shows Caribbean soccer officials being addressed by Jack Warner about cash gifts from Mohamed bin Hammam, the latest development in the months-long scandal at international soccer’s governing body. In a report Wednesday, the Daily Telegraph alleges the video shows members of the Caribbean soccer union [...]
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FIFA begins hearing 15 Caribbean bribery cases
Posted on 11 October 2011.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/t/story/fifa-begins-hearing-15-caribbean-bribery-cases-14710302″> FIFA Begins Hearing 15 Caribbean Bribery Cases The latest wave of FIFA election bribery cases began Tuesday, as 15 Caribbean soccer officials started explaining their part in an alleged plot involving former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam. FIFA said its ethics committee would hear the defendants over three days, and was expected to deliver [...]
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FIFA whistle-blower Chuck Blazer to quit CONCACAF role
Posted on 10 October 2011.
Chuck Blazer this summer survived an attempt to oust him A Fifa official who blew the whistle on alleged corruption within the game’s governing body is to step down as general secretary of Concacaf. Chuck Blazer will continue as a Fifa executive committee member but will leave his North and Central American and Caribbean post [...]
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Caribbean officials head to Zurich to face FIFA Ethics Committee
Posted on 10 October 2011.
Exclusive: Monday, 10 October 2011 By Andrew Warshaw The FIFA bribery investigation reaches another significant milestone today when 15 Caribbean officials face an Ethics Committee hearing into their involvement in the biggest scandal in the organisation’s history. Four members of FIFA’s Ethics Committee – chairman Claudio Sulser (pictured), Robert Torres, José Pedro Damiani and Les [...]
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