Posted on June 1, 2011
It was acting CONCACAF president Lisle Austin’s turn to fire back on Wednesday morning, when he reiterated that the confederation’s general secretary Chuck Blazer was indeed fired and that he had been “waging war.”
On Tuesday, Austin announced that Blazer had been fired due to his role in the FIFA bribery scandal in which CONCACAF president and FIFA vice president Jack Warner provisionally was suspended by the confederation. However, Blazer, through CONCACAF’s New York City headquarters, said that the firing was not in accord with the organization’s statutes and that he still had a job.
Austin, of Barbados, issued yet another statement through Warner’s media service in Trinidad & Tobago, which insisted that Blazer was fired and that any statements enamating out of New York were not official.
“The statement released by the CONCACAF Media Department last night as it relates to the status of the former General Secretary Chuck Blazer are not the official views of CONCACAF,” Austin said. “This is yet another blatant disregard for process and procedure by the former staff member.
“The former general secretary was one of the administrators of the servers used by the CONCACAF department and has access to it and presently still has access to all of the Confederation’s online service.
“The response from the CONCACAF media department is not only the fruit of illegal actions on the part of Mr. Blazer, who is no longer the general secretary of this confederation, but is tantamount to trespassing since, the unauthorized use of CONCACAF’s services and equipment by non-CONCACAF staff is unlawful.”
Austin continued: “In my capacity as acting president, I will not order the immediate shut down of all online facilities of the confederation due the integral role it plays in our day-to-day operations.
“It saddens me to note that Mr. Blazer is using the online publications of a Confederation of which he is no longer employed to wage a war against the office of the acting president.”
Blazer, in Zurich, Switzerland for the FIFA presidential elections, was not immediately available for comment. There was no new statements at the confederation’s website at www.CONCACAF.com as of late morning.
As we said on Tuesday . . . to be continued.
This chapter is not finished, not by a longshot.
Categories: Barbados, CONCACAF, North America, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S.A.
Tags: Chuck Blazer, FIFA, FIFA ethic committee, Jack Warner, Lisle Austin
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