How Jack Warner Stole Millions (And Possibly Sent USA to the World Cup)

Amid all of FIFA's scandals, none is more colorful than the rise & fall of Jack Warner. As the defamed Trinidadian fights extradition to the U.S. and a $50 million lawsuit from CONCACAF, George Quraishi of Howler Magazine visited Warner's home island to find out what locals make of the former FIFA VP. Is he a Robin Hood, or Sepp's sickest sidekick? Quraishi learns, despite all the money Warner stole over two decades, credible Trinidadians believe his biggest crime may have involved selling out his own country in a 1989 World Cup qualifier against the United States—a game that stands as the most important victory in U.S. history. If these suspicions are correct, it would mean that everything that came after was built on the back of an epic, World Cup-sized fraud.

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