A nine-member normalisation committee appointed by FIFA, football’s world governing body, will attempt to straighten out the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).
Its appointment followed two days of meetings in Zurich hosted by FIFA president Sepp Blatter and chaired by Haitian Football Federation president Yves Jean-Bart.
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.
