Disgraced former Haiti Football Federation president denies sexual abuse

The head of the Haiti soccer federation banned from the sport for life last month after being accused of sexually abusing and even impregnating some of the country’s elite female players, said the accusations against him are pulled out of thin air and weren’t properly investigated by world-wide soccer authority FIFA.

Yves Jean-Bart, one of the region’s longest-serving top soccer official, told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that FIFA is ‘corrupt’ and bent on keeping Haiti soccer ‘in its place’ because the men’s national team is suddenly competitive against world powerhouses. He pointed to the night of July 2019 when the red-and-blue suffered a one-goal loss to Mexico at the last minute of the Gold Cup semi-finals.

FIFA banned the 73-year-old, who is nicknamed Dadou, after giving him 10 minutes on Skype to respond to accusations he used his status to abuse and harass players whose future he was entrusted with, some younger than 18.

Jean-Bart told DailyMail.com that powerful Switzerland-based FIFA found a convenient scapegoat in its attempt to root out corruption in the sport – and he is appealing the lifetime ban before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, also in Switzerland. 

Yves Jean-Bart, one of the region’s longest-serving top soccer official, told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that FIFA is ‘corrupt’

The head of the Haiti soccer federation Jean-Bart was banned from the sport for life last month after being accused of sexually abusing female players

A protester holds up a sign that reads in Creole “We are asking for justice,” during the hearing of President of the Haitian Football Federation Yves Jean-Bart in May 

‘Haiti football is disturbing the establishment,’ Jean-Bart said in his native French. ‘We have no sponsor, no advertising, no support and no money behind us, yet we beat Costa Rica and we push Mexico and the USA around. How dare we?

‘Haiti makes no money for FIFA. Kicking me out and crippling Haitian football was the easy way out, the convenient thing to do. After all, what’s Haitian football? It’s nothing, right.’

The investigation into sexual abuse made by unnamed sources, purportedly coaches, players, referees and trainers, to The Guardian earlier this year are so preposterous, says Jean-Bart, that he can debunk them with nothing more than basic principles of biology and good old-fashioned common sense – something FIFA refused to do, he said.

Take the rumor he fathered children with young players.

Jean-Bart, who took over the country’s soccer apparatus 20 years ago, filed documents with FIFA showing he has been fighting prostate cancer from the time he’s been involved with soccer.

His long-term treatment has made it physically impossible for him to impregnate anyone, the 73-year-old Jean-Bart tells DailyMail.com.

According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer treatment can include the removal of the organ that makes sperm capable of fertilizing an egg, radiation, chemotherapy and…