By Andrew Warshaw
March 29 – Jeffrey Webb, President of the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA), will stand alone for the Presidency of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) at its annual Congress on May 23 in Budapest, the confederation has confirmed.
As first reported by insideworldfootball, Webb (pictured) will take over from Trinidad and Tobago’s former FIFA senior vice-president Jack Warner who resigned all of his positions last summer during the ongoing cash-for-votes scandal involving Caribbean members.
According to CONCACAF, Webb will initially complete the final four-year term of Warner, who was re-elected in May 2010.
Webb, who has been President of CIFA for the past 21 years, was nominated by 29 of the 40 member associations by the deadline last Sunday (March 25).
The 47-year-old Webb was appointed chairman of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Normalisation Committee in December, charged with rebuilding the regional football body in the wake of last year’s turmoil.
He is also deputy chairman of the FIFA Internal Audit Committee, a member of the FIFA Transparency and Compliance Committee, Caribbean observer on the FIFA Executive Committee and a member of the CONCACAF Youth Committee.
“I would like to acknowledge and thank the CONCACAF member associations from across the confederation that have demonstrated their confidence in me through their support of my nomination for president,” Webb said.
“I look forward to working with all of the members to strengthen our foundation and build on our unity which has always been our strength.”
CONCACAF has had only three different Presidents in its 51-year history: Ramon Coll Jaumet, from Costa Rica who was in charge between 1961 and 1968, Joaquín Soria Terrazas , from Mexico who there from 1968 until 1990, and Warner, whose reign lasted from 1990 until 2011.
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