Professor Alfredo Hawit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CONCACAF president | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 27 May 2015 – 12 May 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Jeffrey Webb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Victor Montagliani | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 4 June 2011 – 22 May 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Lisle Austin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Jeffrey Webb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Alfredo Hawit Banegas 8 October 1951 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Honduran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | María del Carmen Asfura | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Profession | Lawyer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alfredo Hawit Banegas (born 8 October 1951) is a Honduran lawyer [1] and former footballer. He is the head of the National Autonomous Federation of Football of Honduras and was made the interim head of CONCACAF on 4 June 2011. [2]
As a player, he played professional football for Honduran club sides Progreso, Club Deportivo Olimpia and F.C. Motagua. He scored 11 goals for them altogether. [3] He is one of only few Honduran players who made his debut for a senior side, aged only 15. [4]
Hawit, having seen Jack Warner's reign as CONCACAF President last twenty one years, proposed that the CONCACAF president should be able to serve only one four year-term at a time and for the Caribbean Football Union, UNCAF and North American Football Union to nominate the president on a rotary basis. He was an interim president of CONCACAF. [5]
After the arrest of Jeffrey Webb on 27 May 2015, Hawit was made president of CONCACAF. Hawit himself was then arrested on corruption charges on 3 Dec 2015 in the Baur au Lac hotel in Zürich. [6] On 4 December 2015 he was banned for 90 days by the FIFA Ethics Committee. [7] Hawit was found guilty of four conspiracy counts in the sweeping FIFA bribery scandal in April 2016. [8] [9]
In December 2016, the FIFA Ethics Committee banned Hawit for life from all football-related activities. [10] [11]
Hawit is one of six children of Alfredo Hawit and Emilia Banegas. He spend his childhood in El Progreso, Honduras. [12] He is married to María del Carmen Asfura. [13]