By Andrew Warshaw
July 12 – Jack Warner, the former FIFA vice-president who resigned in the wake of the sport’s worst ever bribery scandal, says he may return to football in the future to complete “unfinished business”.
Warner, from Trinidad, resigned from all footballing activities last month amid claims he had facilitated paying bribes to fellow Caribbean members.
FIFA immediately dropped the investigation against him but warned it would be re-opened if he were ever to return to football.
Warner, who was President of CONCACAF, has now laid down a potential snub to FIFA by suggesting he may go ahead anyway.
He told the Trinidad Guardian: “You can never tell what the future holds.
“There is some unfinished business which I will have to finish in both FIFA and CONCACAF at the appropriate time and who knows I may go back.
“The only expert on FIFA in this country [Trinidad] is me and in the fullness of time I will tell this country what FIFA is and what FIFA is not.”
Mohamed Bin Hammam, the 62-year-old Qatari who was head of the Asian Football Confederation until his provisional suspension, is the man who allegedly paid the bribes to Caribbean members in Trinidad in May.
Bin Hammam faces a FIFA Ethics Committee hearing on July 22 and, if found guilty, could be banned indefinitely.
He vehemently denies any wrongdoing.
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