Warner to continue as FIFA vice-president

ZURICH, Switzerland, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s football guru Jack Warner will continue as a vice-president of the sport’s world governing body FIFA after being nominated unopposed for another four-year term.

Warner, president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), and the CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer will both return to their seats on the FIFA Executive Committee.

Blazer was also 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 president and CONCACAF’s Caribbean 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. Warner, 66, is also president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).

CONCACAF announced in a press release that Warner and Blazer 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 for his seat on the CONCACAF Executive Committee.

The two will face an election June 1 at the CONCACAF Congress.