Friday, December 23, 2011

Victor Daniel on CFU Normalisation Committee


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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