Warner will stand for re-election as CONCACAF President

September 28 – FIFA vice-president, Jack Warner will stand again for re-election as CONCACAF President when voting takes place next year, he has announced.

The current CONCACAF President made this announcement at the conclusion of an Congress at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port-of-Spain.

Warner, Trinidad’s Minister of Works and Transport, highlighted the economic stability and growth despite the world-wide economic downturn during his most spell of President, a reign which started back in 1990.

But one of the key aims if he is re-elected, the 67-year-old Warner promised, would be to campaign for a fourth spot for CONCACAF in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

“Our members made it very clear today that we need four places,” said Warner.

“Our region is united behind this position.”

Sepp Blatter gave CONCACAF reason for optimism that he supported their calls, praising the efforts of the three teams who qualified for the World Cup in South Africa earlier this year.

“Honduras were a good team and they have given strong opposition to the other teams in their group where the eventual champions came from,” he said.

“I follow very much the other teams Mexico and the United States – and the United States could have gone in the quarter- finals easily.”