MIAMI (AP) β Sonia Bien-Aime of the Turks and Caicos Islands has been selected to serve on FIFA’s executive committee representing the Caribbean, becoming the first woman elected to soccer’s top body in a voting seat not specifically designated for a female.
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football said Wednesday that Bien-Aime was elected Saturday when its executive committee met in Vancouver, British Columbia.
She fills the FIFA seat that opened when CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands was provisionally fired on May 28 following his indictment in the U.S. on corruption charges and his arrest in Switzerland.
