Posted on January 10, 2012
Is Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands the next CONCACAF president?
According to InsideWorldFootball.com, Webb is considered a leading candidate to replace Jack Warner as head of the confederation.
Warner resigned from that position and as a FIFA vice president after he part in the FIFA presidential bribery scandal was revealed last spring.
Honduran Alfredo Hawit has been acting president since June.
The Caribbean countries control the votes in the presidential election over Central and North America, so a candidate from that region certainly would be a viable option.
A Caribbean in charge probably would satisfy soccer officials in those countries because CONCACAF last week replaced a North American (Chuck Blazer) with another North American (Ted Howard) as general secretary last week. Howard is the acting general secretary.
Webb last week was appoint the chairman of a nine-man normalization committee that has been charged with restoring the Caribbean Football Union.
Webb told InsideWorldFootball.com that he would be interested in the presidency.
“Right now we are trying to stabilise Caribbean football because we’ve lost sight of our core focus which is football,” he told the website. “We’ll have new statutes in March ahead of full elections in May.
“But CONCACAF needs an overhaul as well and I do think I would have a contribution to make.”
Webb said the confederation needed to distribute its funding more equally.
“Just like the CFU it needs restructuring,” he told the website. “I would like to see it assisting its members and sharing some of its revenues. I’d like to see more of that money helping some of the grassroots programs in smaller countries, both in the Caribbean and central America.”
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Tags: Alfredo Hawit, Caribbean Football Union, Chuck Blazer, CONCACAF, InsideWorldFootball.com, Jack Warner, Jeffrey Webb, Ted Howard
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