ST
GEORGE’S, Grenada, December 23, 2011 - General Secretary of the Grenada
Football Association (GFA) Victor Daniel has been appointed to a committee
tasked with repairing the tarnished reputation of the scandal-plagued Caribbean
Football Union (CFU), according to media reports.
Bermuda’s Royal Gazette has reported that
Daniel was among regional football officials who, along with FIFA President
Sepp Blatter, recently attended a two-day meeting in Zurich, Switzerland where
a normalisation committee was formed.
Representatives from Haiti,
Cuba, Grenada, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Curacao
and Jamaica were tasked with restoring the reputation of the region’s football
authorities in the wake of the Mohammed Bin Hammam bribery scandal.
“I am very pleased that the
representatives of the CFU have reached an agreement in order to move forward
and to look into the future, for the good of the game in the region,” Blatter
said in a statement.
The normalisation committee
will double as the CFU’s executive committee until a new one is appointed at
the CFU’s ordinary congress in the first half of 2012.
The nine members will also
convene an extraordinary congress in the meantime to appoint an interim general
secretary as well as a legal, finance and football committees to steer the CFU
back on course.
At a May meeting in Trinidad,
former CFU and CONCACAF president Jack Warner allegedly offered 25 colleagues
$40,000 each for their support of Bin Hammam in his failed bid to oust Blatter
in the FIFA presidential race.
FIFA later handed down
sanctions – mostly short-term bans, small fines and warnings – to the bulk of
the CFU officials although the federation has yet to provide any explanations.
The other
members of the committee are Yves Jean-Bart (Haiti), Luis Hernandez (Cuba), Larry
Mussenden (Bermuda), Jeffrey Webb (Cayman Islands), Ronald Jones (Barbados),
Everton Gonsalves (Antigua and Barbuda), Rignaal Francisca (Curacao), and
Captain Horace Burrell (Jamaica) who will assume his position on January 16
after completing his suspension, are the other members of the committee.
GFA’s
president Cheney Joseph also attended the Zurich meeting.
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