Topic: Cayman Islands Football Association
Junior players feel CIFA scandal fallout
Funding cuts to Cayman’s national football program have not spared the game’s youngest players. The junior Under-15 national team has taken on fundraising efforts to allow them to continue competing internationally.
Cayman’s football referees on strike over assault claims
Cayman’s football referees are on strike amid allegations that a match official was assaulted by a coach in the closing minutes of a weekend cup match in West Bay on Saturday.
Mini Slam tournament boosts youth football
Academy Sports Club organized its inaugural ASC Mini Slam 7v7 football tournament last Saturday, featuring footballers ages 8 to 12 who took to the four 7-a-side fields at the Academy pitch.
New football club in West Bay
West Bay has a new emerging football team for the likes of Elite, Future and Scholars football clubs to take note, organizers say, albeit in different divisions.
Webb’s sentencing set for November
Cayman’s Jeffrey Webb will not learn his sentence in the FIFA racketeering investigation until at least November, according to officials in the U.S. District Court for New York State’s Eastern District.
Government will not play ball with CIFA
Sports Minister Osbourne Bodden says there will be no peace deal between government and the Cayman Islands Football Association until the entire executive committee has put itself up for free and fair elections.
Past football star Ramoon takes over cash-strapped CIFA
Former Cayman Islands national football team captain Lee Ramoon was elected Saturday to serve as president of the Cayman Islands Football Association.
CIFA to hold elections for Webb’s replacement
Two former Cayman Islands national team players are bidding to replace disgraced football chief Jeffrey Webb as the islands’ football association hosts its first contested presidential election in more than 20 years.
FIFA defendant, ex-Cayman resident Takkas sent to US
Former Cayman Islands resident Costas Takkas was extradited to the U.S. Tuesday, after spending nearly 10 months detained in Switzerland in connection with the ongoing FIFA bribery and corruption investigation.
Football association seeks new leader
The Cayman Islands Football Association will hold an election in May to find a successor to disgraced former president Jeffrey Webb.
Loans, gifts and graft: CIFA and CONCACAF’s Panama connections
A Panamanian company set up by Canover Watson that was allegedly used to receive a $1.1 million bribe payment from Traffic Sports to Jeffrey Webb is the same entity that had a controversial $600,000 loan agreement with the Cayman Islands Football Association, documents reveal.
Soccer bosses vote for reform ahead of election
Leaders of regional soccer federation CONCACAF, including Cayman’s Bruce Blake, met in Switzerland on Thursday to approve a series of reforms that the organization hopes will put an era of corruption and excess behind it.
CONCACAF drops kickback lawsuit
Regional soccer governing body CONCACAF has dropped its lawsuit against California travel company Cartan Tours, which it accused of paying kickbacks to its former president Jeffrey Webb to secure a lucrative business arrangement.
EDITORIAL – FIFA scandal fallout: not just ‘not over,’ but barely begun
Canover Watson is in Northward Prison. Jeffrey Webb is under house arrest in Georgia. And yet the local fallout from the global FIFA scandal has barely started.
Lawsuit: US$1.2M in CIFA loans were ‘graft’
Some US$1.2 million in what were initially called loans granted to the Cayman Islands Football Association in 2013 have been described as “graft” in a lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court.
Blake ‘heartbroken’ by latest CIFA claims
Cayman football boss Bruce Blake says he is “sad and heartbroken” by allegations that money intended for the national football Centre of Excellence may...
CarePay trial – Crown: Webb’s Georgia home purchase was ‘money laundering’
Cayman Islands businessmen Canover Watson and Jeffrey Webb made up a bogus employment contract for Webb and used a Cayman Islands Football Association employee...
