NEW YORK — Chuck Blazer, the disgraced American soccer executive whose admissions of corruption set off a global scandal that ultimately toppled FIFA President Sepp Blatter, has died. Blazer accused CONCACAF President Jack Warner and fellow executive committee member Mohamed bin Hammam of offering $40,000 bribes to voters in the 2011 FIFA presidential election. “Chuck hoped to help bring transparency, accountability and fair play to CONCACAF, FIFA and soccer as a whole,” his lawyers said in a statement. He was the U.S. Soccer Federation’s executive vice-president from 1984-86, then became chair of the national teams committee. Blazer urged Warner to run for president of CONCACAF in 1990.

Source: National Post July 13, 2017 02:48 UTC