CAS­TRIES – Pres­i­dent of the Bar­ba­dos Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (BFA), Randy Har­ris on Sat­ur­day be­came the first Bar­ba­di­an to be elect­ed to the pres­ti­gious FI­FA Coun­cil dur­ing the 40th Or­di­nary Con­gress of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of North, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, and Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion Foot­ball (Con­ca­caf) be­ing held in St. Lu­cia.

Har­ris joins re-elect­ed Caribbean rep­re­sen­ta­tive So­nia Ful­ford of the Turks and Caicos Is­lands on the Coun­cil, while Mar­tinique’s Mau­rice Vic­toire was re-elect­ed to the Con­ca­caf Coun­cil.

As a re­sult, the 69-year-old Har­ris, who is al­so the pres­i­dent of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU), re­vealed he would not seek re-elec­tion to the post.

How­ev­er, Har­ris, who has spent al­most five decades as a foot­ball ad­min­is­tra­tor, said he planned to con­tin­ue as pres­i­dent of the BFA.

“It is re­al­ly an ho­n­our and a priv­i­lege to be elect­ed as a mem­ber of the FI­FA Coun­cil.

“I am look­ing for­ward to be­ing able to strength­en the voice of the re­gion at the glob­al ta­ble and to con­tin­ue to sup­port the FI­FA pres­i­dent’s vi­sion in the de­vel­op­ment of foot­ball glob­al­ly,” Har­ris said.

CMC