Jeffrey Webb set to be named CONCACAF President

By Andrew Warshaw

May 22 – Barring a last-minute hitch, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) will name Jeffrey Webb as its new President tomorrow, heralding in a new era of transparency for the troubled region.

As first reported by insideworldfootball, Webb (pictured above), President of the Cayman Islands Football Association, is the only candidate running for the post and will formally 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.

Webb will be officially appointed CONCACAF boss at the Confederation’s annual congress in Budapest, 24 hours before FIFA’s own two-day congress in the Hungarian capital, one of the most significant in the organisation’s recent history.

It is understood that Webb will initially complete the final four-year term of Warner (pictured below), who was re-elected in May 2010.

The main task for Webb, nominated by 29 of the 40 member associations, will be to rebuild 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.

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 was there from 1968 until 1990, and Warner, whose reign lasted from 1990 until 2011.

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