Tag: Cayman Islands Football Association

Challengers call foul on CIFA

Challengers call foul on CIFA

| 27/08/2015 | 16 Comments

(CNS): The two challengers who have been barred from running in this weekend’s CIFA annual elections have said they are astonished by the revelations on CNS this week that the decision to reject their nomination was made by the committee made up of the very members who are all now running unopposed in the annual […]

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Ozzie pulls CIFA public cash

Ozzie pulls CIFA public cash

| 25/08/2015 | 72 Comments

(CNS): The sports minister has pulled government’s contribution to the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) after the row over the refusal by the football body to accept two challengers to the long-entrenched members of the executive committee escalated this week. Osbourne Bodden said that government will, under the current circumstances, redirect the annual payment give […]

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CIFA digs in over rejection of challengers

CIFA digs in over rejection of challengers

| 25/08/2015 | 45 Comments

(CNS): The local football body is standing by its decision to reject the nominations of two possible challengers to the entrenched executive committee at the annual general meeting and elections this weekend. Despite significant concerns about CIFA against the backdrop of the current FIFA scandals and investigations around the world, including the catalogue of charges […]

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CIFA nomination trouble worries sports minister

CIFA nomination trouble worries sports minister

| 19/08/2015 | 50 Comments

(CNS): Osbourne Bodden said he was concerned to hear the Cayman Islands Football Association had rejected the nominations of two challengers for official CIFA posts in what he said sounded like a very undemocratic process. The sports minister told CNS that he was not only surprised by the decision but confused as to what provisions […]

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Webb appears in Brooklyn court as FIFA case rolls on

Webb appears in Brooklyn court as FIFA case rolls on

| 17/08/2015 | 14 Comments

(CNS): The former CONCACAF President, Caymanian Jeffrey Webb, appeared in court in New York on Friday and his case was adjourned until 9 October. Prosecutor Evan Norris told the judge that US officials had begun turning over evidence to Webb’s attorneys and that the case was proceeding. According to local press reports, Webb, who was […]

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Viewpoint: Clubs have the power to change CIFA

Viewpoint: Clubs have the power to change CIFA

| 05/08/2015 | 40 Comments

Football Guy writes: Towards the end of August CIFA, the local football governing body, will hold its annual congress and elections. If it were not for the events of the past 4 months, we could let this event slide as another boring predictable election where the same people serving on the CIFA executive remain per […]

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Webb denies charges, bailed on $10M bond

Webb denies charges, bailed on $10M bond

| 18/07/2015 | 86 Comments

(CNS): Former CIFA President Jeffrey Webb has denied allegations of corruption and bribery in the massive FIFA racketeering investigation and has been bailed but placed under house arrest on a $10 million bond according to news reports. Despite speculation that Webb was in talks with the US authorities regarding a plea deal, the fifty-year-old Caymanian from […]

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US prosecutor confirms Webb’s arrival but no court date set

US prosecutor confirms Webb’s arrival but no court date set

| 17/07/2015 | 18 Comments

(CNS): A Brooklyn court heard Friday that Cayman’s former football boss, Jeffrey Webb (50), had arrived in the United States to face criminal charges in the massive FIFA corruption scandal. But In the first official confirmation that the extradited FIFA official is Webb, the US prosecutor overseeing the case, Evan Norris, said he did not […]

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Webb crosses Atlantic under guard

Webb crosses Atlantic under guard

| 16/07/2015 | 28 Comments

(CNS): The former FIFA vice president, CONCACAF and local football president, Jeffrey Webb, is understood to have arrived in New York after he was handed over to the United States authorities Wednesday. The Swiss authorities have confirmed that one of the seven officials arrested in Switzerland on behalf of US authorities in relation to a […]

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Webb agrees to US extradition

Webb agrees to US extradition

| 10/07/2015 | 82 Comments

(CNS): The former local football boss, Jeffrey Webb (50), has agreed to be extradited to the US, according to international media reports. A number of leading news agency have reported that Webb who is currently being detained in a Swiss Jail is willing to go to the United States and answer the allegations against him […]

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Miller: CIFA’s books need open audit

Miller: CIFA’s books need open audit

| 10/06/2015 | 39 Comments

(CNS): The independent MLA for North Side has called on the sports minister to audit the books of the local football association to ensure the more than $127,000 that goes to the Cayman Islands football Association from the public purse is being used properly. However, Minister Osbourne Bodden responded that CIFA does provide financial returns for the […]

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