The FIFA/CONCACAF corruption mess just keeps getting uglier and uglier.
Just days after blowing the whistle on alleged bribes involving then-CONCACAF President Jack Warner and FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam, the man who has temporarily replaced Warner as the head of CONCACAF tried to fire Chuck Blazer. The attempt was unsuccessful though.
Lisle Austin, the man who has replaced Warner as CONCACAF president, issued a statement saying Blazer had been "terminated as general secretary of CONCACAF with immediate effect".
UPDATED- Here is a statement released by CONCACAF, stating that Austin was NOT authorized to fire Blazer:
Today an unauthorized declaration was made by Lisle Austin attempting to remove Chuck Blazer as General Secretary of CONCACAF.
This attempted action was taken without any authority. Under the CONCACAF Statutes, jurisdiction over the General Secretary rests solely with the CONCACAF Executive Committee which has taken no action. Further a majority of the Executive Committee Members have advised Mr. Austin that he does not have the authority to take such action.
Chuck Blazer continues as CONCACAF General Secretary and with the full authority of his office. The Confederation continues its normal operations including the Gold Cup commencing on June 5th at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas.
Blazer, a member of FIFA's Executive Committee, reported Warner and Bin Hammam for allegedly attempting to bribe CONCACAF voters ahead of the FIFA presidential election, which Bin Hammam was running in at time against Sepp Blatter. Now Austin, a reputed ally of Warner, has removed Blazer from his role with CONCACAF, though it remains unclear whether he even has the authority to do such a thing.
What do you think of this nonsense? Is it all just making you laugh, or cry?
Share your thoughts below.
It’s not about where Warner is from, it’s about how downright corrupt he is. No need for the chip.
If it’s true that Blazer reported these guys, and he becomes the one that finally gets Jack Warner OUT of CONCACAF, then the man instantly becomes a LEGEND in my opinion. Way to go Chuck!
Well this is funny I’m from Barbados and I am loving this. First off our national set up is a joke we can’t even beat school children. I lived in Barbados all my life and I have never heard of Lisle Austin. Secondly it pains me to say but Concacaf is what ever North Americans say it is. A man from a small island can’t do it is what I’m seeing from all your comments. There goes the idea that the good old North Americans cherish of democracy and social mobility. I myself mite as well stop trying to achieve. Thirdly Mr Austin and Mr Warner if your going to be corrupt at least let the British West Indies benefit from it. We are terrible at the sport and for all you Americans who take digs at the Caribbean nations I expect no less from you guys. We don’t have tons of money like you we don’t fight wars remember?
good one, probably the janitor
You come at the king, you’d best not miss.
I don’t think she’s that hot dude. Ignorance and stupidity are a major turn-off for me.
You clearly haven’t been following Bill Archer’s blogs on BigSoccer. Otherwise you wouldn’t be surprised to find out exactly how corrupt CONCACAF is. Sorry you didn’t know, but it’s been like this for a very long time.
It’s a Reuters reporter.
Jim Tressel to replace Jack Warner!!!!!!!!!!!
Then don’t log in to google when surfing the web.
Unless I’m mistaken, that’s someone else making fun of him by posting the press release on facebook. It’s not like it’s Austin’s page or anything.
i thought Jerry Garcia was dead . . .
Why would you insult 6th graders like that?
We would get all the World Cup spots and the Caribbean could split .5 spots with Oceania, seeing as neither one matters.
Dude the internet selects personal ads for you. A lot of other people will have different ads than you. Apparently you’re a Palin supporter. The more ads of Palin you click on, the more you get. I have a Salvation Army ad on mine right now.
Ad personalization is nice, when it shows you links to clothing you may like, or tickets to a show/game you wanna go to. But it is getting to be a real problem ’cause it even can even change the google search results you receive. Meaning you won’t be exposed to new ideas, you can basically get isolated in your own internet bubble. Since it’s all done with algorithms now, for youth today it could mean the links they see for a majority of the development stage of life is determined by what they did on the web when they were teenagers or pre teens. Not a pleasant thought.
Not to be all doomsday, but it can become a problem.
If it wasn’t before, this is now officially a farce.
+1
Four countries is not enough to form a confederation. But perhaps they could form a North-Central American Confederation with US, Mexico, Canada,Honduras, Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Nicaragua and Belize. But then how will FIFA divide 3.5 CONCACAF spots between CONCACAF and the new confederation?
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&¬e_id=219893581367864
LINK??
Sunil Gulati is a member of the CONCACAF Executive committee.
can someone please provide me with a flowchart of all the corruption, this is getting to hard to follow.
Its getting much worse. Interim CONCACAF President Austin has replied via Facebook. Its a scathing attack. Are these guys fighting hallway by hallway with guns or something in a Zurich hotel?
jokes man, jokes
FIFA: Looking more and more like a 6th grade student leadership committee every day since 1904.
Looking forward to Brasil as my last World Cup travel……Hope others will join and boycott this corrupt society they call FIFA.
If you want to strip the the Carribean nations of their authority (at least somewhat) North and Central America should pull out of concacaf. That’s where all of the money in this region is at anyway.
Lisle Austin has a whopping 51 friends! And one of them is Blazer!! I wonder how much I’ll have to pay him to be his “friend” LOL.
This whole thing would be hilarious if it wasn’t so depressing.
The US, Mexico, and Canada need to leave CONCACAF and form a separate North American soccer federation, maybe with a fourth country.
adidas and FIFA are bound together. Foul by A. Jennings makes it clear that they feed off each other. adidas will never bite the hand that feeds it monopolistic contracts.
Wow, he and Chuck are friends on FB.
And what’s that going to do huh? Spark an “independent” investigation that fifa rules as having no merit. The whole things a joke.
Oops. Also find the spelling mistakes. Doh.
Find the American steriotype in this picture!
He’s an homage to Whtiman: “I sound my barbaric yawp.”
Yes, that is actually Bill Clinton sitting behind Blazer and next to Gulati. Remember he was one of the key people involved in our World Cup bid.
Now what is really strange about this picture is the ghost of Strom Thurmond sitting to the left of Blazer.
Is that Bill Clinton behind the angry hagrid?
That makes my real confident in his abilities. He’s also the head of Department of Redundancy Department
Poor guy sitting next to him has to let Hagrid use up half of his seat.
which is sad, since it probably siphons off dough that could’ve been used to strenghten those teams and their stadium situations. In other words, Concacaf CL is affected too. Also, i dont give a damn what anyone says about Palin’s politics, the lady is hot. This “Should Sarah Run” ad on SBI is very distracting.
Unless you’re looking at a different picture from the rest of us, the “black dude” sitting next to Blazer is Bin Hammam, an Arab.
The dude sitting next to him is Bin Hammam not Warner
“Austin, who is also the Chairman of the CONCACAF Referee Committee…” Strait from the CONCACAF website
Here is this idiot’s facebook if you guys want to make your voice heard and his email address according to CONCACRAPs website…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisle-Austin/787754889
LAustinBRB@aol.com
I don’t know if they would in fact be vulnerable–it would depend upon where charges were brought… And if there is anything Chuck likes, it is (subsidized) travel.
The Honduran soccer federation is corrupt, but I doubt it has an effect on the big picture. It hurts the growth of soccer in Honduras more than anything.
Bill Clinton is behind them so I’m waiting for another shoe (or dress) to drop.
Oh, FIFA is quite corrupt of course. But frankly, the FA’s (many of them) are even worse. Brasil, Cameroon and most of Africa, Honduras, many of the Middle East FA’s, alot of the Carribbean FA’s–they’re worse than FIFA (just on a smaller scale). Having soccer countries start their own version of FIFA–that’s what FIFA basically is. The Brasilian Top Hats—read what Franklyn Foer has to say about them (in “How Soccer Explains the World”). I’m not trying to make excuses for FIFA, only pointing out how endemic, how inherent this corruption is. If you’re a promising youth player in Nigeria, you bribe the U17 and U20 coach in order to get picked so you have a chance to be seen by foreign scouts and sign a contract with a decent club.
And this Blazer thing is just appalling. It shows just how bad Concacaf is, that it’s not just Warner, that if you do the right thing you face some serious payback. It will be interesting to see the referee assignments that the USA gets in the Gold Cup.
Hey I’m sure there’s SOMEONE in FIFA that’s not corrupt…..maybe the janitor? 😀
very good points…i’m with you on ur thought process….
Why is it that the damn Minnows of CONCA-WAK
are leading the federation instead of somebody from the US, MEX or CANADA?
just realized that Hagrid aka Chuck Blazer is the fat guy…and black dude sitting next to him is Warner