CONCACAF to lead by committee

MIAMI (AP):

The CONCACAF football body will go without a president until May after its past three leaders were indicted in the FIFA bribery case.

The North and Central American and Caribbean confederation said its executive committee decided yesterday to have a collective leadership for five months and not appoint another interim president.

"In light of current events, it is critical that the confederation's next president be determined by a public election and the

scrutiny that comes with it," CONCACAF said in a statement.

A vacancy opened when acting president Alfredo Hawit of Honduras was arrested in Zurich last Thursday on a US Department of Justice request.

Hawit, a FIFA vice-president, was among seven senior CONCACAF region officials in the latest DOJ indictment to rock soccer's governing body and rip through its Latin American leaders.

Previous CONCACAF presidents Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands and Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago were charged in a first indictment published in May.

Webb's guilty plea to racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering charges was also unsealed last Thursday. He agreed to forfeit US$6.7 million in bribes.

CONCACAF said its presidential election to formally replace Webb is scheduled for May 12, 2016 in Mexico City, before the FIFA Congress there.