CARIBBEAN FOOTBALL got a stiff kick in the pants yesterday.
And former regional football chief Austin “Jack” Warner felt the weight and reach of the United States’ criminal justice system in his Trinidad homeland where he was arrested and the first steps toward his requested extradition taken.
The region’s football fraternity was thrown into turmoil amidst more claims of bribery and corruption inside the sport’s world governing body, FIFA, with current CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb being arrested in Zurich, Switzerland.
In the afternoon Warner turned himself in to police and was taken before a magistrate in Trinidad, after being indicted on racketeering and money laundering charges by the United States’ Department of Justice.
Warner, who ruled Caribbean football for 21 years as president of CONCACAF, appeared in a Port of Spain magistrate’s court just before 4 p.m. He was granted TT$2.5 million bail, and ordered to surrender his passport. He must also report to police twice a week.
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