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Danny Jordaan admits $10 million payment but denies bribe claims

The president of the South African Football Association, Danny Jordaan, has denied the country bribed Fifa officials to help secure the 2010 World Cup through payments worth $10m. The awarding of the 2010 tournament to South Africa has come under scrutiny following a series of bribery charges against Fifa officials by the US authorities, who have made 14 arrests. Jordaan told the Sunday Independent. “I haven’t paid a bribe or taken a bribe from anybody in my life. We don’t know who is mentioned there (in the indictment),” “How could we have paid a bribe for votes four years after we had won the bid?”, adding the payment was South Africa’s contribution towards CONCACAF’s football development fund. Warner was then also president of CONCACAF.

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