By let­ter, dat­ed June 17, 2011, and ef­fec­tive on that date-as con­firmed by the world foot­ball gov­ern­ing body–I re­signed the po­si­tions I had long held as FI­FA vice pres­i­dent, pres­i­dent of Con­ca­caf and pres­i­dent of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union.This de­ci­sion is by my own vo­li­tion and self-de­ter­mi­na­tion; al­beit it comes dur­ing the se­quel to the con­tentious Mo­hammed bin Ham­mam meet­ing in Port-of- Spain in May with CFU Del­e­gates.I am con­vinced, and I am ad­vised by Coun­sel, that since my ac­tions did not ex­tend be­yond fa­cil­i­tat­ing the meet­ing that gave Mr Bin Ham­mam an op­por­tu­ni­ty to pur­sue his abort­ed bid for the FI­FA pres­i­den­cy, I would be ful­ly ex­on­er­at­ed by any ob­jec­tive ar­biter.I have, nonethe­less, ar­rived at the de­ci­sion to with­draw from FI­FA af­fairs in or­der to spare FI­FA, Con­ca­caf and, in par­tic­u­lar, CF, and its mem­ber­ship, from fur­ther ac­ri­mo­ny and di­vi­sive­ness aris­ing from this and re­lat­ed is­sues.

I am grat­i­fied that FI­FA has ac­knowl­edged my ser­vice to in­ter­na­tion­al and re­gion­al foot­ball over sev­er­al decades.It is al­so a spe­cial source of sat­is­fac­tion to me that dur­ing my tenure, ca­pac­i­ties and fa­cil­i­ties in the Caribbean were up­grad­ed to lev­els that en­abled the re­gion to host sev­er­al FI­FA World Cup fi­nals.I sin­cere­ly hope that the Caribbean Foot­ball Union will con­tin­ue to fight above its weight in FI­FA and Con­ca­caf af­fairs.

With my with­draw­al from ser­vice in in­ter­na­tion­al foot­ball, I shall, hence­forth, be con­cen­trat­ing ex­clu­sive­ly on my life­long com­mit­ment to the ser­vice of the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go, cur­rent­ly as chair­man of the ma­jor par­ty in our gov­ern­ing coali­tion and as a Cab­i­net Min­is­ter in the Gov­ern­ment of our Re­pub­lic.I shall con­tin­ue to en­cour­age the youth of the Caribbean and the world to deep­en their in­volve­ment in foot­ball, which has lift­ed so many young peo­ple out of hope­less­ness and risk to per­son­al achieve­ment, while bring­ing glo­ry to their re­spec­tive coun­tries.

Re­spect­ful­ly sub­mit­ted

Jack Warn­er

June 20, 2011