“I was there dressed just lying on my bed for a couple minutes before going to another meeting and suddenly I felt the room moving left to right … mirrors were falling and I felt as though my room on the 31st floor was almost going down to road level and back up. I heard screams throughout this which lasted for about five minutes. I was dazed… I was stunned literally. Then it just subsided. I didn’t move… I just laid on the bed.”
— Concacaf president Jack Warner, who was staying at the Sheraton Hotel in Chengdu, China, for a soccer tour at the invitation of the Asian Football Confederation when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit. More than 12,000 people are reported to have died. (soccer365.com)