PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC:

Caribbean Football Union president, Gordon Derrick, believes the Caribbean can rebound from the latest scandal to shake the region.

Last May, the Caribbean was plunged into turmoil when CONCACAF president and FIFA vice-president, Caymanian Jeff Webb, was arrested and indicted by the United States on corruption charges.

Former CONCACAF president, Trinidadian Jack Warner, who was also a FIFA vice-president, was also indicted by the US on similar charges, and is currently fighting extradition.

Derrick said despite this, Caribbean leaders still had a role to play in football governance.

Black eye

"I don't think there is a black eye on the Caribbean per se, or that because these two [cases] happened back to back and therefore no-one else can do it (lead). I think that would be unfair," Derrick told an international news agency.

Resignation

Warner was at the centre of the first CONCACAF cash-for-votes scandal in 2011 and was forced to resign amid corruption allegations.

However, the US Department of Justice said it had continued to investigate Warner and subsequently named him and Webb as part of a 47-count indictment related to racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies.