FIFA offside against TTFA

Following the infamous cash-for-votes scandal in, coincidentally, Trinidad and Tobago, in 2011, that literally brought the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) into disrepute and forced the body to undertake reforms, it was the general consensus that FIFA, under new leadership, was charting the right course.

With the help of the US Justice Department, FIFA had removed all the rotten eggs from the organization’s basket and had put more stringent measures in place to deal with the funding, associations under its umbrella, receive and what they did or did not do, with it.

But in one swell swoop, one rash tackle on the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), Gianni Infantino’s world governing body, undid all its hard work following the exit, (one might be tempted to say weeding out) of Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke, Jack Warner, Jeffrey Webb and a number of other football officials, whose fingers were in one pie or another.