Former Westchester Soccer Dad at Core of Sprawling FIFA Case
Blazer, a one-time soccer dad from New York’s Westchester County, helped elect Jack Warner, a former history teacher from Trinidad and Tobago, as president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football in 1990. Blazer then served as his deputy, and together they built up CONCACAF, as the confederation is known, strengthening its finances and political power.
Photographer: Peter Kohalmi/AFP via Getty ImagesFor more than two decades, Charles “Chuck” Blazer reveled in the perks of being general secretary of the confederation that oversees soccer in North and Central America. He lived in a Trump Tower apartment, flew on private jets, dined at the world’s finest restaurants, and hobnobbed with celebrities and world leaders.
He detailed much of it on his blog, “Travels with Chuck Blazer and his Friends,” which features pictures of Blazer with Hillary Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Prince William, among others. Describing his meeting with then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a November 2010 post, Blazer wrote: “He looked at me with a very serious gaze and said, without cracking a smile, ‘You know, you look like Karl Marx!’”