Jack Warn­er said he re­signed from soc­cer's gov­ern­ing body FI­FA be­cause he lost the en­thu­si­asm to con­tin­ue and that peo­ple with­in the or­gan­i­sa­tion "sought to un­der­mine me in ways that are unimag­in­able."The 68-year-old head of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union and CON­CA­CAF re­gion­al body quit af­ter FI­FA this month hired FBI Di­rec­tor Louis Freeh to in­ves­ti­gate bribery claims against Warn­er and Mo­hammed Bin Ham­mam, the head of soc­cer in Asia.FI­FA said its probe in­to Warn­er has end­ed af­ter he re­signed.

Warn­er and Bin Ham­mam were sus­pend­ed from FI­FA pend­ing fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tion on May 29 af­ter Chuck Blaz­er, a US of­fi­cial who worked as CON­CA­CAF's gen­er­al sec­re­tary un­der Warn­er for two decades, al­leged the pair tried to bribe Caribbean vot­ers to choose Bin Ham­mam in FI­FA's pres­i­den­tial elec­tion over in­cum­bent Sepp Blat­ter.Bloomberg.co.com quot­ed Warn­er as say­ing in a tele­phone in­ter­view: "I have lost my en­thu­si­asm to con­tin­ue."The gen­er­al sec­re­tary that I had em­ployed, who worked with me for 21 years, with the as­sis­tance of el­e­ments of FI­FA has sought to un­der­mine me in ways that are unimag­in­able."The sto­ry said Blaz­er didn't re­spond to a voice­mail seek­ing com­ment. In a pre­vi­ous in­ter­view he said it was his du­ty to re­port wrong­do­ing.

Warn­er was al­so quot­ed in that sto­ry as say­ing he re­gret­ted not mak­ing pub­lic a promised de­c­la­ra­tion for Blat­ter in May, when the FI­FA pres­i­dent lob­bied for votes at the Con­fed­er­a­tion of North, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion Foot­ball at a meet­ing in Mi­a­mi.He arranged for Bin Ham­mam to vis­it Caribbean mem­bers of the or­gan­i­sa­tion a few days lat­er af­ter Bin Ham­mam, a Qatari, said his US visa didn't ar­rive on time. Blaz­er al­leged that bun­dles of US$40,000 were giv­en to of­fi­cials.

"I told Mr Blat­ter in an e-mail that Mr Bin Ham­mam doesn't have a chance," Warn­er said. "I told Mr Blat­ter al­so that I would ask Mr Bin Ham­mam to with­draw. I told him he has CON­CA­CAF sup­port. Had we an­nounced in Mi­a­mi, CON­CA­CAF sup­port for Mr Blat­ter, all this would nev­er have hap­pened."Bin Ham­mam, 62, has de­nied claims he tried to buy votes. Warn­er said he wasn't around when the mon­ey is said by wit­ness­es to have changed hands at the Hy­att Re­gency ho­tel in Port of Spain.

Still, he said gift-giv­ing has been part of FI­FA cul­ture dur­ing the near 30 years he's been as­so­ci­at­ed with the or­gan­i­sa­tion. "It's not un­usu­al for such things to hap­pen and gifts have been around through­out the his­to­ry of FI­FA," Warn­er said. "What's hap­pen­ing now for me is hypocrisy." "At the end of the day I don't want to be seen to be venge­ful," Warn­er said. "I am say­ing over time his­to­ry will judge Mr. Blat­ter," Warn­er was al­so quot­ed as say­ing."If FI­FA doesn't go back to its moor­ings, foot­ball in the world as we know it to­day will nev­er be the same again," Warn­er said.

Warn­er said he'll con­tin­ue to as­sist with FI­FA's in­quiry al­though wouldn't meet with Freeh be­cause he be­lieved he was act­ing on be­half of Blaz­er and CON­CA­CAF lawyer John Collins. Collins draft­ed the orig­i­nal com­plaint against Warn­er and Bin Ham­mam. He said he felt hurt by Blaz­er's ac­tions."I don't know who's a friend and who's a foe," Warn­er said. "In ret­ro­spect pos­si­bly my friends, who I thought of as my friends, have been foes and pos­si­bly my foes have been friends. In full­ness of time I'll be able to see bet­ter who was foe and who was friend."