Three Guatemalan match-fixers hit with life bans
By Andrew Warshaw
October 25 – Guatemala is the latest country to become embroiled in match-fixing, with three players banned for life by FIFA.
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FIFA confirms defected Cuban footballers
By Andrew Warshaw
October 15 – Three Cuban footballers who vanished just before a World Cup qualifying match against Canada have defected, FIFA has confirmed.
Canada throws support behind Sinclair after she receives ban
By Andrew Warshaw
October 15 – The Canadian Government has waded into the dispute over the country’s women’s team skipper Christine Sinclair after she was banned by FIFA for unsporting behaviour.
I hate off-season loaning, says MLS Commissioner Garber
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London
October 12 – Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner Don Garber says he disapproves of loaning players to European clubs in the off-season as he tries to enhance the credibility of the game in the United States.
Warner accused of cutting off Trinidad football’s funding
By Andrew Warshaw
October 12 – Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who resigned from football in the wake of last year’s cash-for-votes scandal but is still a prominent politician in his native Trinidad and Tobago as National Security Minister, is once again under the spotlight – this time for allegedly exploiting his country’s own federation.
CONCACAF President Webb pulls out of Leaders in Football conference
By Andrew Warshaw
October 11 – Jeffrey Webb, President of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), was forced to pull out of the Leaders in Football conference in London when he fell ill on his transatlantic flight.
Horace Reid quits JFF to become CONCACAF director
By Andrew Warshaw
October 5 – Horace Reid is leaving his post as general secretary of the Jamaican Football Federation (JFF) to join the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) as its new director of competitions.
New CONCACAF Integrity Committee kicks reforms into gear at first meeting
By Andrew Warshaw
September 25 – The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football’s (CONCACAF) newly created Integrity Committee, formed to clean up the confederation of months of blood-letting, has held its first meeting in New York City charged with getting to grips with the misdemeanours of the past.
CONCACAF appoints new Integrity Committee chair
By Andrew Warshaw
September 23 – Former Barbados Chief Justice Sir David Simmons has been appointed to chair the newly formed Integrity Committee of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) in an attempt to improve the organisation’s credibility after 18 scandal-tainted months.
Gulati wants new US women’s coach in place by end of October
By David Gold
September 20 – United States Soccer Federation (USSF) President Sunil Gulati is aiming to have a replacement for departing women’s national team coach Pia Sundhage by the end of October.
CONCACAF congress delayed as external audit continues
By Andrew Warshaw
September 18 – Auditors examining the books of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) under the previous regime led by former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who resigned from football in the wake of last year’s cash-for-votes scandal, have not yet completed their work, delaying the confederation’s extraordinary congress until next year.
Rival’s plans to unseat Warner scuppered by Trinidad and Tobago Government
By Andrew Warshaw
September 11 – Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who resigned from all football activities in the wake of last year’s cash-for-votes scandal, appears to have survived the latest attempt by political opponents to topple him from Government in his native Trinidad and Tobago.
Political opponents try to topple Warner
By Andrew Warshaw
September 5 – Political opponents of Jack Warner continue to turn up the heat on the former FIFA powerbroker with a demand that he be kicked out of Government in his native Trinidad and Tobago.
Sundhage steps down as US women’s coach following double Olympic triumph
By David Gold
September 2 – United States women’s football coach Pia Sundhage, who led the country to a third successive Olympic gold medal in London this summer, is stepping down to return to her native Sweden.
Sporting Kansas to keep Livestrong name on stadium
By David Gold
August 31 – Major League Soccer outfit Sporting Kansas City will continue to name their stadium after Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong Foundation, despite the cyclist’s decision not to fight doping allegations.