LESS than 24-hours after the on-field brawl between the visiting River Plate of Puerto Rico and T&T’s San Juan Jabloteh in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championships at the Larry Gomes Stadium, Arima on Sunday, held a meeting with all match and tournament officials involved in the event on Monday.

The meeting was attended by CFU President Jack Warner and decided that an investigation is continuing into the incidents that took place. Further results coming out of this investigation which includes a review of video footage, will follow in due course.

What happened:

On Sunday April 18, Police Officers were called in when members of players were involved in a brawl in the Second Round Group D decider, at the Larry Gomes Stadium, Malabar, Arima.

The Puerto Ricans were unhappy after going under to a Jason Marcano strike in the 75th minute, his third in two matches which secured a spot in the CFU Club Championship Final Round series, scheduled for Puerto Rico later this month.

Marcano was punched in the face when he tried to shake hands with the visitors at the sound of Jamaican referee Courtney Campbell’s whistle to signal the end of the match.

It is alleged goalkeeper Cleon John was also spat on and this did not go down well with his team-mates and the crowd and eventually led to the brawl with spectators joining in.

The altercation was partially quelled by Campbell and his assistants while a gunshot was fired by a security guard in an effort to stop the melee.

CFU Acting General Secretary, Neville Ferguson, along with other T&T Football Federation officials, Lennox Watson and Sharon O’Brien, were among those who tried to resolve the situation.

The match was full of incident as four players were issued red cards. River Plate’s Maximiliano Vallejos, Raul Ruiz (78th) and Jorge Gonzales (85th), and Jabloteh’s Cyrano Glen (75th minute)

Jabloteh, 2-0 winners over Guyana’s Alpha United last Wednesday, needed only a draw to book a place in the Final Round of the four-team tournament while the Puerto Ricans needed nothing less than a victory after a 1-1 draw with Alpha United on Friday.

With the win, Jabloteh stayed on course for a third CFU club title after it ended the three-team group with maximum six points. River Plate, named after one of Argentina’s top clubs and Alpha ended with a point each.

Jabloteh 2 (Joshua Perreira 23rd, Jamil Young 76th) vs Rangers 0