By David Gold
November 16 – Following their exit from the Brazil World Cup 2014 qualifiers last week, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister for Sport, Anil Roberts, has said that football in the country needs to be completely reconstructed.
By David Gold
November 16 – “Due process” will be followed if the former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner is found guilty of breaching the country’s customs laws, Trinidad and Tobago’s Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has said as his office continues to investigate a tape that emerged seemingly showing Warner encouraging FIFA delegates to take bribes.
By David Gold
November 14 – Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner, Don Garber, has praised David Beckham’s impact on football in the United States, as he gears up for what will likely be his final game of a five-year spell with LA Galaxy.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – New York Cosmos, once the most glamourous name in United States soccer which even lured Pele out of retirement, wants to become a major force once again – possibly with Arab money.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 30 – The cash-for-votes scandal involving almost the entire membership of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) has taken another twist with the news that Oliver Camps has quit as President of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) after 19 years in charge.
By David Gold
October 28 – The Major League Soccer (MLS) play offs have thrown up the marketing man’s dream – a game between David Beckham’s LA Galaxy and Thierry Henry’s New York Red Bulls.
By Tom Degun in Guadalajara
October 27 – A conference is currently underway here to decide on who will replace CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer when the American steps down from his post on December 31 this year.
By David Gold
October 25 – Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Basdeo Panday has said that ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner cannot be touched, as an investigation is carried out into the former CONCACAF President’s role in the cash-for-votes scandal by the country’s Attorney General.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 19 – Chuck Blazer, the FIFA official who blew the whistle on the biggest bribery scandal in the organisation’s history, has launched a strongly worded rebuttal of a full-scale attack on him by former colleague Jack Warner, describing it as “garbage” and “an amazing work of fiction”.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 15 – Video transcripts of disgraced ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner suggesting his Caribbean colleagues were free to accept gifts from former FIFA Presidential hopeful Mohamed Bin Hammam have been handed over to the Attorney General in Warner’s native Trinidad, according to reports.
By David Gold
October 14 – FIFA has welcomed the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) decision to abandon its appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against world football’s governing body for not punishing five Mexican players who tested positive for clenbuterol prior to the CONCACAF Gold Cup earlier this year.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 14 – Exactly a week before FIFA President Sepp Blatter unveils his eagerly anticipated anti-corruption plans, the infamous cash-for-votes scandal claimed four more senior officials tonight in the conspiracy’s latest raft of sanctions.
By David Gold
October 12 – Trinidad and Tobago’s Football Federation (TTFF) will pay more than TT$4 million (£2.4 million/€3 million) to 13 players who played in the 2006 World Cup as compensation following a dispute between the two parties over revenues from their participation in the tournament, which was held in Germany.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 12 – The hearing into the roles played by 15 Caribbean officials in the FIFA bribery scandal is using explosive video evidence of ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner (pictured) urging them to accept cash gifts, it was reported today.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – 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.