Riza later offered himself as the fall guy for Annan's decision, but neither paid any penalty.
The Stutes square up against big-spending Crawley next but Riza is not phased by the challenge.
To help organize and launch the Alliance, Annan turned to his former chief of staff, Iqbal Riza.
Riza, 30, was banned by the Turkish Football Federation after walking out on Trabzonspor 18 months ago.
Riza's supervisor, World Bank Vice President Jean-Louis Sarbib, says the circumstances surrounding the SAIC job were not transparent.
For Riza, the Alliance became a vehicle for quietly returning to the U.N.
The incident that prompted the most comment internally involved Shaha Ali Riza.
He attacked the bank's directors, who he said must have known about the terms of Ms Riza's deal long before the crisis erupted.
Wolfowitz has already apologized for giving Riza a promotion and unusually large pay increase just before her transfer to the State Department in 2005.
Riza's attorney Victoria Toensing says that her client did nothing wrong.
She adds that James Wolfensohn, who was then president of the World Bank, welcomed the trip, and even asked Riza to brief members of the bank's executive board.
Since separating from his wife of more than thirty years, Clare Selgin Wolfowitz, in 2001, he has dated a secular Muslim woman in her fifties, Shaha Ali Riza.
Nor did the bank's staff entirely escape his scorn: Ms Riza is only one of hundreds, he pointed out, who take home more money than America's secretary of state.
With Riza as special advisor, the Alliance in 2005 set up a secretariat in New York, and enlisted a founding panel of 20 "eminent persons" to further shape its agenda.
After a dispute over payment with the Turkish club Riza failed to hold down permanent deals at Shrewsbury and Aldershot and now finds himself on non-contract terms at Bridge Road.
Riza's role in setting up the Alliance was intertwined at least briefly in early 2005 with Giandomenico Picco, whom Annan also tapped as a link between the old Dialogue and the new Alliance.
The Bank Mandiri accounts allow the overseas workers to deposit their pay back home and get help with their finances, but their true value lies in the future, says Riza Zulkifli, senior vice president of retail for the bank.
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World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz's bid to keep his job is becoming increasingly difficult amid new allegations related to work his girlfriend, bank employee Shaha Riza, did for a private contractor as the United States was preparing to invade Iraq.
After a long U.N. career, Riza had resigned in disgrace just a few months earlier, after disclosures by Paul Volcker's Oil-for-Food inquiry that Riza, in violation of his own orders to staff, had overseen the shredding of three years worth of U.N. executive suite documents of "potential relevance" to the investigation.
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