Olympism

The world of sport, already reeling under the seemingly incessant accusations of athletes and officials who have been and continue to be involved in the use of performance enhancing substances has been dealt another heavy blow – charges of corruption at the highest level of international football.

Interesting the slew of revelations have come in just one week prior to the FIFA elections in which Blatter was being challenged by Bin Hammam.

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In the recent past accusations have again surfaced about corruption in the hallowed halls of FIFA, the world governing body for Football. While many have had much to say thus far on the issue the reality is that it should come as no surprise to any of us. Football has really had a chequered and colourful developmental pathway and there is little chance of any of this changing in the near future.

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During the current week the international governing body for the sport of Football, (FIFA) sent a consultancy team through the Caribbean on an investigative visit to the respective affiliates relative to assessing their current administrative and technical statuses.

While here the consultants met with the Football Federation as well as several stakeholders to garner information in respect of their mandate. Read the rest of this entry »

When Basil ‘Bung’ Cato declared, ‘Soccer – The Game of the People’, he never intended it to be in any way caught up in the politics of the day. Instead, Bung’s intention was to ensure that we all come to a recognition of the popularity of the sport.

Since Bung delivered his popular phrase we have come to see the unparalleled growth of football in St Vincent and the Grenadines. No other sport has come even close to the popularity of this particular game.

What we saw at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex on Saturday last was a most crude display of the state of Vincentian football – a classic case of political football. It must have been a bitter-sweet experience for those who were honoured from the 1979 team. They must have sat in dismay at what had become of the game they had taken to the very top of the regional level.

Bung Cato himself would surely have felt embarrassed to have had himself in any way associated.

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