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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Matthew Hall

Concacaf whistleblower Mel Brennan: ‘Fifa survived Blatter and Warner. It will survive Infantino too’

Fifa president Sepp Blatter leaves after his 2015 resignation press conference in Zurich.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter leaves after his 2015 resignation press conference in Zurich. Photograph: Valeriano Di Domenico/AFP/Getty Images

Mel Brennan has seen every level of world football. “I know what the World Cup looks like from the 17th floor of Trump Tower … I know what it looks like from a grass-strewn field in Trinidad where children cannot play because money that was supposed to maintain it went somewhere else entirely,” he says.

Brennan worked as an executive at Concacaf during the corrupt reign of its infamous former president Jack Warner and the late general secretary Chuck Blazer, who once helped run the organization from Trump Tower.

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