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CONCACAF announces that Jack Warner of Trinidad & Tobago has been re-elected as CONCACAF President for another four-year term, which will run from 2007-2011

14.3.07 - CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football) announces that Jack Warner of Trinidad & Tobago has been re-elected as CONCACAF President for another four-year term, which will run from 2007-2011.

With the passing of yesterday’s deadline for nominations to all positions up for election at the XXV CONCACAF Ordinary Congress to be held in Toronto, Canada on 12 May 2007, Jack Warner stood as the only nominated candidate for President and will formally commence his fifth term at the Congress.

In a demonstration of the ongoing stability and unity within CONCACAF that has characterized his Presidency, Warner received multiple nominations from every sector of CONCACAF’s diverse membership of 40 nations.

Warner was first elected as CONCACAF President in 1990 and he has been re-elected on every occasion since then (1994, 1998, 2002 and now, 2007). Warner is also the longest continuously serving member of the FIFA Executive Committee having first taken his seat on that body in 1983.

In other election news, Lisle Austin is re-elected unopposed as CONCACAF Vice President (Caribbean Zone). Austin has served as CONCACAF Vice President since 1992.

Also elected unopposed to new positions are the following:

CONCACAF Vice President (North American Zone) – Guillermo Cañedo (Mexico)

CONCACAF Executive Committee Member (Central America Zone) – Ariel Alvarado (Panama)

FIFA Executive Committee Member – Rafael Salguero (Guatemala)

The CONCACAF Congress returns to Canada for the first time since 1992, when it was in Vancouver, British Columbia. Attendees at CONCACAF’s XXV Ordinary Congress will include delegates from each of CONCACAF’s 40 member nations along with invited guests from the global football family.