Everybody’s favorite scandal plagued President of Concacaf and Vice-President of FIFA Jack Warner has found himself in the middle of another lie. Mr. Warner, who is running to become Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago went to South Africa last week to meet with Nelson Mandela in hopes of scoring political points back home. However, there was a little problem with this as ‘Warner did not meet Mandela after he refused to sign an agreement that the meeting would not be used for political purposes.’

Yet Fifa put out a press released that stated: ‘Fifa vice-president Jack Warner paid a whistle-stop visit to SA today to meet with Nelson Mandela as well as executives of the country’s Premier Soccer League [PSL].’

Oddly enough, Fifa has now removed the press release from their website, but here is the cached version from google.

So it looks like Jack Warner does not limit his creative ways to his soccer dealings alone.

On a different matter, if Warner did become Prime Minister, would he have to resign as Concacaf boss? It would make sense, but I can’t find anything to suggest that he would.

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MADRID, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Barcelona forward Lionel Messi
has backed coach Frank Rijkaard to resolve the side’s poor away
form in the Primera Liga, which threatens to undermine their
campaign.

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MADRID, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Barcelona forward Lionel Messi
has backed coach Frank Rijkaard to resolve the side’s poor away
form in the Primera Liga, which threatens to undermine their
campaign.

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A.S. Roma will play Fiorentina on Sunday without its star striker, Francesco Totti, who is out with a thigh injury.

The U.S. women’s World Cup team will have a difficult challenge in Thursday’s semifinal against the Brazil team led by the artistry of Marta, the FIFA women’s player of the year.

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Defending champion Germany, who reached the final of the Women’s World Cup after a convincing victory over Norway, will face the winner of United States-Brazil.