BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos, Mia Mot­t­ley has con­grat­u­lat­ed pres­i­dent of the Bar­ba­dos Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (BFA) Randy Har­ris on be­ing elect­ed to the FI­FA Coun­cil.

Har­ris, who is al­so pres­i­dent of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU), cre­at­ed his­to­ry on Sat­ur­day when he 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.

In a post on so­cial me­dia, Mot­t­ley de­scribed Har­ris’ elec­tion as a “well-de­served achieve­ment.”

"A his­toric mo­ment for Bar­ba­dos!

“Big con­grat­u­la­tions to Randy Har­ris on his elec­tion to the FI­FA Coun­cil, the first Bar­ba­di­an to ever hold a po­si­tion on this high-lev­el foot­ball body,” Mot­t­ley said.

“With close to five decades of ded­i­ca­tion and lead­er­ship in foot­ball ad­min­is­tra­tion in Bar­ba­dos and the Caribbean, this is tru­ly a well-de­served achieve­ment.

“We look for­ward to see­ing you cham­pi­on lo­cal and re­gion­al foot­ball on the glob­al stage,” the Prime Min­is­ter added.

CMC