The Dr. João Havelange Centre of Excellence is a football academy and development suite in Macoya in Trinidad and Tobago.

Ownership was transferred to him and Renraw Investments from businessman and Trinidad's Guardian newspaper owner Anthony Norman Sabga and FirstCaribbean International Bank director Michael Kelvin Mansoo in October 1998.

Austin Lisle, the Barbados Football Association President and CONCACAF vice-president later claimed that he had only signed the contract and was not a beneficiary of borrowed funds.

[8] Another loan was made by a political supporter of Jack Warner's UNC party, Krishna Lalla and his company Real Time Systems Ltd. Lalla filed a lawsuit in 2011 claiming he was owed $28.1 million TTD and the lawsuit shown that one of companies secured against was the Centre of Excellence.

[4] Jeffrey Webb, the CONCACAF and Cayman Islands Football Association President said that he was "shell-shocked, dismayed and upset" at the revelations.