Warner returns to FIFA ExCo seat for another 4 years
By: Shaun Fuentes (TTFF).
CONCACAF President Jack Warner and General Secretary Chuck Blazer both will return to their seats on the FIFA Executive Committee for another four years, having been nominated without opposition to the world body’s most powerful panel.
Warner, who was first elected to the Executive Committee in 1983, will retain his post as FIFA vice presidentCaribbean representative until 2013. Similarly, Blazer will return to the post as the representative from North America for another four years, a position he has occupied since 1996, CONCACAF announced on Tuesday.
The two will formally begin their new terms at the conclusion of the FIFA Congress in the Bahamas on June 3, two days after the XXVI CONCACAF Ordinary Congress on the Atlantic Ocean archipelago.
Within the confederation, Alfredo Hawit of Honduras was nominated unopposed for another term as CONCACAF vice president of the Central American zone. Also, Sunil Gulati of the USA was nominated without opposition for another term on the CONCACAF Executive Committee from the North American zone. The nomination period closed Thursday.
In the Caribbean zone, Peter Jenkins of St. Kitts & Nevis will challenge incumbent Horace Burrell of Jamaica. and CONCACAF’s for his seat on the CONCACAF Executive Committee. The two will face an election June 1 at the CONCACAF Congress.
