Remembering the day Jacob Zuma met Jack Warner

29 May 2015 - 02:22
By Neal Collins

On June 13 2009, just before the Confederations Cup in South Africa, president Jacob Zuma enjoyed a charming meeting with a Fifa vice-president called Jack Warner at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. Zuma told Warner - arrested yesterday and accused of taking a $10-million bribe to back South Africa's 2010 World Cup bid - how grateful he was to the man who was in charge of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association of Football for 21 years until he resigned in 2011.

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