US Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone has been elected to the FIFA Council after a vote on the congress of regional physique CONCACAF.
Parlow Cone was elected because the consultant for the North America area, one in all 5 members of the ruling council from CONCACAF.
Randy Harris of Barbados was elected for the Caribbean area and Sonia Fulford of the Turks and Caicos was voted in to function the ladies’s consultant.
All three officers have been elected unopposed at CONCACAF’s fortieth odd congress in St. Lucia on Saturday.
The 2 different seats on the council are held by CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani and Central America consultant Rodolfo Villalobos of Costa Rica.
“I’m honored to be elected to signify US Soccer, North America, and CONCACAF on the FIFA Council. I stay up for persevering with our work on the worldwide degree to advance our initiatives and strengthen our area’s world place,” stated Parlow Cone in an announcement.
Parlow Cone has been president of US Soccer since March 2020 afer beforehand serving as vice-president of the group.
A former US girls’s nationwide group participant, she featured 158 instances for her nation and was additionally a coach at girls’s membership aspect Portland Thorns.
She faces an election to stay as president of US Soccer in 2026 — the 12 months that the USA will co-host the World Cup with Mexico and Canada.
Parlow Cone has led a number of modifications within the group. Underneath her management the federation has employed J.T. Batson as CEO and secretary normal, and likewise introduced in sporting director Matt Crocker, Emma Hayes as girls’s nationwide group coach and Mauricio Pochettino to guide the boys’s group into the World Cup.
US Soccer can be shifting from its long-standing base in Chicago to a brand new headquarters in Atlanta, the place a nationwide coaching middle is being constructed.
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