Alfredo Hawit

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Hawit and the second or maternal family name is Banegas.
Professor
Alfredo Hawit
Vice President FIFA
Assumed office
27 May 2015 (2015-05-27)
Preceded by Jeffrey Webb
President of CONCACAF
In office
4 June 2011 (2011-06-04)  22 May 2012 (2012-05-22)
Preceded by Lisle Austin
Succeeded by Jeffrey Webb
Personal details
Born Alfredo Hawit Banegas
(1951-10-08) 8 October 1951
Nationality Honduran
Spouse(s) María del Carmen Asfura
Alma mater Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Profession Lawyer

Association football career
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1970 Progreso (2)
1974–1976 Olimpia (8)
1976–1977 Motagua (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Alfredo Hawit Banegas (born 8 October 1951) is a Honduran lawyer.[1] 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]


Club career

As a player, he played professional football for Honduran club sides Progreso, Olimpia and 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]

CONCACAF

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 the CONCACAF. Hawit himself was then arrested on corruption charges on 3 Dec 2015 in the Baur au Lac hotel in Zürich.[6]

Personal life

Hawit is one of six children of Alfredo Hawit and Emilia Banegas. He spend his childhood in El Progreso, Honduras.[7] He is married to María del Carmen Asfura.[8]

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