BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC—Re-elected president of the Barbados Soccer Affiliation (BFA) Randy Harris mentioned ending the nationwide technical heart shall be his mission in what might be his ultimate time period as the game’s chief on the island.
The 64-year-old, president of the Caribbean Soccer Union (CFU) and one in every of three vice presidents of the Confederation of Central American & Caribbean Soccer (Concacaf), regained the highest place through the BFA’s annual common assembly on Sunday.
Harris has held the submit for the previous 12 years, and he prevailed over challenger and former nationwide goalkeeper Omari Eastmond 37-30 for one more four-year time period.
“I began this presidency to make sure that Barbados has its facility,” he informed reporters after the election on the BFA’s headquarters, Wildey Turf.
“Soccer won’t ever enhance if we don’t have correct services; anyone will inform you that, so my mission, which shall be my final time period, is to make sure that our technical heart is accomplished.
Harris has come beneath rising scrutiny not too long ago as a result of the lads’s and girls’s nationwide groups on the senior and junior ranges have but to achieve success in regional competitions.
“I put myself within the race as a result of I wish to full my mission of growing, initially, the power, after which taking a look at getting severe about packages, principally junior packages as a result of we’ve got to look to the way forward for soccer in Barbados,” he mentioned.
“I wish to thank the members for having confidence in me once more, and I simply wish to say to the challenger that he put up a great battle. He has one thing to provide to soccer, and I hope this loss doesn’t trigger him to really feel he isn’t welcome to help.
Barbados is at present 177th on the earth within the FIFA males’s rankings and one hundred and sixtieth within the girls’s rankings.
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