In a statement published by the Jamaica Gleaner, Warner, who was banned for life by the FIFA Ethics Committee back in 2015, claimed the ongoing allegations of corruption levelled against him were "repetitive and ancient”.

It comes after CONCACAF filed a federal lawsuit against Trinidad and Tobago's Warner, a former Executive Committee Member, and American Chuck Blazer.

The governing body are seeking $20 million (£15.6 million/€18.6 million) damages to "to redress the harms caused by Warner and Blazer’s fraudulent, unfair and unlawful acts as former high ranking officials of CONCACAF".

Blazer, who is a former FIFA Executive Committee member and former CONCACAF general secretary, struck a plea deal in 2013 and turned whistleblower for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Warner conspired to accept bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 World Cup bid processes, won by France and South Africa respectively, the CONCACAF complaint says.

Warner is facing extradition to his native Trinidad and Tobago on charges of wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering.

But his confirmation that he is counter-suing CONCACAF and Gulati, the head of US Soccer, represents another development in his continued denial that he is guilty of any wrongdoing.

"I have been slaughtered for the past six years and have remained silent, ignoring my legal options to respond to the atrocities that have been perpetrated against me by men of the lower ilk,” Warner said. 

“And so the time has come for me to respond and hence the lawsuit against CONCACAF and Gulati in his personal capacity.”

The 74-year-old also accused Gulati of "taking the CONCACAF down a very dangerous path".

"All these false allegations filed in an American Court simply because the USA did not obtain the votes to host a FIFA World Cup will fall to nought," added Warner.

“I have left the CONCACAF since 2011.

"Why the CONCACAF will not leave my family and me alone is simply mind-boggling.

“CONCACAF football is at its lowest today and the current threat to sue Warner and Blazer for 20 million US is nothing more than a distraction to shift its pathetic current state away from the management of this Confederation."

The CONCACAF was at the epicentre of widespread financial wrongdoing within football, with three of their previous four Presidents before Canadian Victor Montagliani was elected last year indicted by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ).

Honduran Alfredo Hawit and Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands were also implicated, along with Warner.

They have all been banned from all footballing activity for life, while Hawit and Webb have pleaded guilty to corruption charges in the US.

Their illicit actions over the past two decades, largely involving millions of dollars of bribes and kickbacks related to media and marketing rights for major international matches and tournaments, rocked CONCACAF to its core and plunged the governing body into an unprecedented crisis.

insidethegames has contacted CONCACAF for a response.