Minister of Sports versus Dr. Chimilio’s FIFA
Bertie Chimilio is the FIFA strongman in Belize. He has survived many attempts to displace him as head of the Football Federation of Belize. This coming weekend, no less than the Minister of Sports will try to run Chimilio out of town and have him and his executive replaced. The Minister has been holding meetings around the country with numerous football organizations. But removing the incumbent is easier said than done because the crafty Chimilio who has a rather lengthy tenure at the FFB also has a strong footing in FIFA, who pays the bills for the FFB and calls the tune. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports.
Isani Cayetano, Reporting
The organizational landscape of Belize’s football arena is once again under the threat of major housecleaning that is if Minister of Sports John Saldivar gets his way with the ouster of current FFB president Dr. Bertie Chimilio in an upcoming election. Preparations are currently underway among football aficionados for this coming Saturday when a vote is planned to remove Chimilio and the existing administration of the Football Federation of Belize. It is not the first time, but Chimilio has prevailed in all previous attempts. Since the beginning of the month, Saldiver has been meeting with various football stakeholders to ouster Chimilio. Among the many criticisms is the way the executive body of the Football Federation is being ran. There have also been complaints of lack of confidence in FFB under Chimilio’s leadership. At the end of the consultations Saldivar guaranteed that he would correspond with FFB and FIFA, demanding that FFB adheres to its bylaws.
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Those statutes dictate that the chain of command begins with the FFB Congress which is comprised of seven members from the district associations and the Belize Premier Football League. The congress then elects the administration; however, in an unprecedented move the FFB Secretariat recently issued an email to its members endorsing Chimilio and his slate of candidates. They include Dr. Bertie Chimilio for President, Bernaldino Pech for Senior Vice President, David Jones for Vice President, as well as John Moody and attorney Michael Peyrefitte as Executive Members. Peyrefitte, is a new comer to the roster and that is raising eyebrows.
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Dr. Chimilio has apparently precluded the nominated slate of Sergio Chuc for President, Wilhelm Moguel for Senior Vice President, Mervin Flores for Second Vice President as well as Daniel Arzu and Cruz Gamez as Executive Member. Chimilio, we understand, has also called into question the legitimacy of Chuc’s candidacy. And so the election is set for Saturday at eleven a.m. Will Chimilio survive this one? Reporting for News Five, I am Isani Cayetano.
We could not get the reaction from the Ministry of Sports on this story because of the government imposed censorship of this station.
I think everyone in Belize except Mr Chimillio and the board members who vote for him don’t want him to be there anymore.
get out chimilio and your nasty committee. you know you guys are stealing especially that woman you have there as your sweet heart. all foot ball players know that . and we all hate you for hating on them too.
fight chuc and get the position.
i am ashamed of fellow orangewalkenos Pech and Palacio! Cant they see that football under Bertie has not evolved any at all. What will it take to make them see this. Are they afaird to loose their Salaries. thier flights to football games. Come on we need to improve football in Belize. Bertie has to go.
What has Chimilo done for football in Belize?????? Let his actions speak??? The answer is clear “NOT A THING” oh wait I’m wrong…he has been COLLECTING lots of money courtesy of the FIFA Organization!!!
Sergio Chuc is just one more like Bertie Chimilio, how is it that chuc is going higher and higher under this government? is it that some politician from the west has made promises to him for managing verdes for a long time?
YEA SERGIO CHUC KISSES ERWIN CONTRERAS BUTT EVERY INSTANCE HE GETS ITS ANOTHER POLITICAL FAVOR WHERE ARE ALL THE OTHER CANDIDATES WHO CAN FILL THIS POSITION WHY IS IT ALREADY FIXED THAT CHUC IS THE ONLY ONE RUNNING AGAINST CHIMILLIO I KNOW CHIMILLO HASNT DONE MUCH BUT I DONT THINK ANOTHER UNEDUCATED PERSON LIKE CHUC WILL DO ANY BETTER ALL THESE GUYS LIKE CHUC ARE LOOKING FOR IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO STEAL STEAL STEAL .I MEAN WHAT HAS CHUC DONE FOR FOOTBALL ANYWHERE IN BELIZE? NOTHING RUNNING VERDES IS SIMPLE PAY A FEW BUCKS TO A COUPLE GUYS WHO CAN PLAY AND SURROUND HIM WITH TEN MORE UNHAPPY PLAYERS AROUND THE PAID ONES AND WHAT DO U GET MEDIOCRE FOOTBALL AND THAT HAS BEEN VERDES FOR SINCE CHUC HAS BEEN RUNNING IT IF HE CANT RUN VERDES TO A CHAMPIONSHIP HOW WILL HE RUN FIFA’S MONEY WHICH IS AT A LARGER SCALE
SEEMS like we just can’t AVOID POLITICS…………….
Chucky..its all about the Money…That comes first..football sadly..comes last….
It will be a blessed day for BELIZE when we can read about an organization that runs smoothly and is working for the benefit of what they are representing and the people running them are not filling their pockets. Looks so far like “Belizean For Justice” is one of the few sincere organization.
replacing bertie with sergio chuc will be like changing black daag fu monkey!
ya. when its time for change belizan always have somthing to say
Chimilio has done what in ten Years. it’s very clear that he needs to go. real football fans know that since Chuc took over the BPFL it has seen new ways of improving the league.
Why are we all consumed by the financial gain, nobody is talking about football and what we can do to improve football at our level in Belize. We should concentrate more on the development of football at grass roots level and contrlo our own destiny instead of worrying about how fat the pockets of FFB is getting. Lets all do our part in the development of our youth. The level of football has decrease drastically with the influx of money. The players before our generation were name brand players without a salary and football was a past time and was fun to watch. Stop complaining. Without our youths and football the won’t be any FFB.
I agree with maurice. When the players of Belize commit themselves to organize themselves the way we used to do when we were young and playing with doll heads, only then can the FFB be brought into alignment with what is needed for Belize to show its true footballing potential on the international stage. In the meantime, instead of blowing steam at the FFB Executive and its crony-ism, we can use that very effort to organize youth football. With such effort, we can realize a crop of committed players within ten years to form functional clubs to constitute functional district associations which in turn should result in a functional Football federation of Belize and its subordinate Executive Committee. Lets work as we shoot the breeze, Belizeans..