Filed under: International Soccer, MLS, US Soccer
We interrupt your regularly scheduled CONCACAF Champions League action for yet another regularly scheduled CONCACAF embarrassment.
It seems that Jack Warner, the confederation president who's part neighborhood gangster and part outlandish James Bond villain, is refusing to pay promised bonuses to the Trinidad and Tobago players who qualified for the 2006 World Cup (Warner negotiated the bonuses and is a high-ranking member of the country's parliament). And Warner and his yes-men at the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation are refusing to pay despite repeated rulings requiring them to do so.
According to this story from the Trinidad and Tobago Express and this piece from The Observer (London), both the international Sport Dispute Resolution Panel and the Port of Spain High Court have ruled that the TTFF owes more than $3 million in promised bonuses and legal costs to at least 13 Soca Warriors. Perhaps even more troubling for Warner, the TTFF has been told it must open its books to an independent auditor.
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