Latest: Corruption and Money Laundering
He was known as football’s Mr 10 per cent. Chuck Blazer’s reputation for serving his own needs alongside of those of his football paymasters was legendary.
The former general secretary of Concacaf, the organisation which runs football in central and north America and throughout the Caribbean, used the organisation to fund his lavish lifestyle which included luxury apartments in New York’s Trump Tower – one for himself and his partner, the other reputedly for his cats.
Renowned for his love of expensive restaurants, he also travelled the world by private jet meeting the likes of Nelson Mandela and Pope John Paul II. All this was funded by football.
Charles “Chuck” Blazer’s relationship with money – he has an ability to spot ways to earn it as well as spend it – was key to his long love-in with the so-called beautiful game. His involvement started innocently enough as a “soccer Dad”, ferrying his son to football in the late-1970s and early-1980s. In the US, soccer was in its infancy, its popularity far distant to traditional US games of baseball, basketball and Gridiron. That gradually changed over the ’80s as its popularity grew at grassroots and in US colleges despite the failure of the first professional league in 1984.
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