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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">FROM 'VILLAIN' TO GODFATHER, FIFA VICE-PRESIDENT, AUSTIN JACK WARNER TURNS MISFORTUNE INTO DOLLARS<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">By Camille Moreno<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Business Guardian<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">January 13, 2000<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" align=right><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Page 1<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">In the i<A name=top></A>nternational football community, Austin "Jack" Warner is well known as a shrewd and tough administrator.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">But for many others, particularly the players of the popular sport, Warner is a godfather who steps in and helps them out in their hour of need.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Such was the case last Friday when a footballer, fearful of losing his car which had been repossessed by a bank, caught up with Warner at the local Concacaf offices in Port of Spain.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">It was by chance that the ever-busy football federation president turned up for work that day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He had returned two nights earlier from Germany for a brief stopover before heading out on Monday to Brazil where the Fifa World Club Championships are being played Monday.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Preoccupied with last Saturday's friendly match between the senior national squad and Canada, as well as the launching of Carnival 2000 celebrations in his Arouca hometown the next day, Warner seemed a bit perplexed by the distressed young man's arrival at this offices.<o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o></o></SPAN><P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Rather than wave him off with the excuse of a tight schedule, the 56 year-old Fifa vice-president ushe
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