Chuck Blazer is resigning as the No. 2 official of CONCACAF in December, a half-year after going public with bribery accusations against his then-boss. The 66-year-old American has been secretary general of the Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Football since 1990. He said in May that CONCACAF president Jack Warner and Asian confederation head Mohamed Bin Hammam attempted to bribe Caribbean delegates $40,000 each to vote for Bin Hammam in the FIFA presidential election. Warner's acting successor then tried to fire Blazer, setting off more disciplinary proceedings. “I've been running a governing body long enough. We've been through a little bit of a stagnation period,” Blazer said Friday in a telephone interview with the AP. “I want to do something entrepreneurial. It was the right time. I wanted to give them notice to let them start to look for somebody.” After Blazer made the bribery charges, Bin Hammam withdrew from the election, leaving Sepp Blatter to run unopposed for a fourth term. Warner resigned all his football posts in June, and FIFA imposed a lifetime ban on Bin Hammam, who was head of the Asian confederation and is contesting the penalty. In the fallout, acting CONCACAF president Lisle Austin attempted to fire Blazer but the group's executive committee said Austin lacked the authority. FIFA then suspended Austin, who went to court in his native Bahamas and called FIFA a “corrupt cabal of arrogance and cronyism.” Blazer said he will retain his post on the FIFA executive committee. He was elected to football's most powerful body in 1997, and his current term runs through mid-2013.
