Warner to face FIFA World Cup ticket probe on Friday

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=yspsctnhdln>Warner to face FIFA World Cup ticket probe on Friday</TD></TR><TR><TD height=7><SPACER height="1" width="1" type="block"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>AFP
<SPAN class=ysptimedate>September 13, 2006</SPAN>

ZURICH, Switzerland (AFP) - FIFA vice-president Jack Warner and his son face a day of destiny on Friday as global football's governing body investigates corruption and embezzlement accusations against the pair.

They are both accused of making money through the illegal sale of World Cup tickets and FIFA is due to examine a report into the affair.

FIFA spokesman Andreas Herren confirmed on Wednesday that the report, commissioned in January from auditors Ernst and Young, would be on the table at a session of the FIFA Executive Committee on September 15.

In the lead up to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Warner's son Daryan purportedly made 730,000 euros (927,000 dollars) from resales of tickets which he had obtained thanks to his father's FIFA connections.

Daryan Warner runs a travel agency in Trindad and Tobago and was given the sole rights to sell the ticket allocation set aside for the Caribbean island nation, which had qualified for the World Cup for the first time.

That sparked allegations that Jack Warner had violated the FIFA code of ethics.

Shortly after the World Cup kicked off in June, FIFA was embarrassed after one of its officials admitted selling tickets for a match involving England for three times their face value.

Ismail Bhamjee, a Botswanan member of the powerful 25-member FIFA executive, said he had sold 12 Category One tickets for the England v Trinidad and Tobago match for 300 euros (380 dollars) each. They had a face value of 100 euros.

Bhamjee was forced to resign immediately from all World Cup-related duties and ordered to leave Germany as soon as possible.

FIFA has faced allegations that it destroyed documents related to the case, but Herren told AFP that the claims were untrue.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[Mosiah]

RE: Warner to face FIFA World Cup ticket probe on Friday

It doesn't surprise me one bit that that clown, Oral Tracey, is supporting Jack Warner. Afterall, the baker sponsors his show, so he understands his upline very well.



Basically, Oral asked if we were satisfied with Jack, if we would want him replaced by, God forbid, some American, or someone who does not know the hallowed halls of FIFA. Yes! I would!



It's idiotic to think that only Jack would have done for CONCACAF what he did over his many years as president. Hundreds more would have done as much or even more. And hundreds more would have done it with some semblance of decency and honesty, not operating the confederation as his own sleazy cabal, rife with questionable and not so questionable deals, such as those aimed at pushing through his homeland in tournaments. Say nothing of the breeding of a slurping few, jostling to learn from his every crooked manoeuver.



Here's hoping that FIFA does the impossible and confine Jack to Trini politics. His kind would do well in that sphere.

[Karl]

RE: Warner to face FIFA World Cup ticket probe on Friday

Mosiah (9/14/2006)
It's idiotic to think that only Jack would have done for CONCACAF what he did over his many years as president. Hundreds more would have done as much or even more.

You speak truth!

...and, a vast many more before "Jack" came along did nothing for us.

A vast many more are out there, itching to step in, who will do just as well as those who came before "Jack" - Zilch!