Federation

THE HASELY Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo will be the venue for the 2011 Digicel Kick Start Academy, which will culminate six weeks of the Digicel Kick Start Clinics throughout the Caribbean, North and Central America region.

A close source to the Soca Warriors Online (SWO) confirmed that a FIFA conference for the positions of CONCACAF General Secretaries and Technical Directors began yesterday morning in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Former FIFA vice-president, Jack Warner yesterday told reporters that president of Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation, Oliver Camps, did the right thing by resigning, and he must be commended for his action. Speaking to reporters outside City Hall, Port-of-Spain yesterday, Warner said Camps did what this country has failed to do.

FIFA is investigating 10 more Caribbean football officials over their alleged roles in a bribery scandal involving former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam.

Oliver “Ollie” Camps, the embattled president of the T&T Football Federation (T&TFF) has quit his position with immediate effect after a 19-year reign.

With regard to the ongoing litigation between 13 of the 2006 World Cup players and the TTFF, the latest development is that the TTFF, and its president Oliver Camps, have failed to comply with a High Court order to make an interim payment of TT$4.26 million.

While I have been extremely satisfied and pleased to offer myself for service to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation, the current climate within FIFA has given me reason to rethink my position and thus give notice of my immediate resignation as the President of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation.

Chuck Blazer, the FIFA official who blew the whistle on the biggest bribery scandal in the organisation's history, has launched a strongly worded rebuttal of a full-scale attack on him by former colleague Jack Warner, describing it as "garbage" and  "an amazing work of fiction".