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CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football. Its 41 member associations represent countries and territories mainly in North America, including the Caribbean and Central America, and, for geopolitics, geopolitical reasons, 3 nations from the Guianas Subregion#South America, subregion of South America-Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (an overseas department and region, overseas region of French Fifth Republic, France). The CONCACAF's primary functions are to organize competitions for national teams and clubs, and to conduct the FIFA World Cup, World Cup and FIFA Women's World Cup, Women's World Cup qualifying tournaments. The CONCACAF was founded in its current form on 18 September 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico, with the merger of the North American Football Confederation, NAFC and the Con ...
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FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Royal Belgian Football Association, Belgium, Danish Football Union, Denmark, Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, France, German Football Association, Germany, the Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain (represented by Real Madrid CF), Swedish Football Association, Sweden, and Swiss Football Association, Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises List of FIFA Member Associations, 211 national associations. These national associations must also be members of one of the six regional confederations: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa), Asian Football Confederat ...
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Caribbean Football Union
The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) is the representative organization for football (soccer), football associations in the Caribbean. It represents 25 FIFA member nations, as well as 6 territories that are not affiliated with FIFA. The Union was established in January 1978 and its member associations compete in the CONCACAF region. The CFU runs multiple competitions, including the CFU Club Shield, CONCACAF Caribbean Cup, and youth challenge series. History The formation of the Caribbean Football Union is credited to former Trinidad and Tobago national football team, Trinidad and Tobago national footballer Patrick Raymond. In 1976, he approached Phil Woosnam, the Commissioner of the North American Soccer League (NASL), about ownership of a Caribbean franchise within the NASL, and instead, Woosnam proposed the formation of a Caribbean Professional League. Acting on Woosnam's advice, and with assistance from former England player-turned businessman Jimmy Hill and his company World Sp ...
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Central American Football Union
The Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol (Central American Football Union), more commonly known by the acronym UNCAF, represents the national football teams of Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its member associations are part of CONCACAF. Member associations Competitions Overview The UNCAF organize various competitions. The Copa Centroamericana was played every two years from 1991 until 2017, and usually featured the seven national teams. Costa Rica is the most successful team, winning the tournament eight times. Honduras won the tournament four times while Guatemala and Panama won once each. This tournament usually ran as a qualification round for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The UNCAF also ran the Copa Interclubes UNCAF, a competition for the champions and runners-up of the domestic leagues of the UNCAF members; C.D. Motagua (Honduras) was the last champion ( 2007). Similarly to the Copa Centroamericana, this comp ...
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North American Football Union
The North American Football Union (NAFU; ; ) is a regional grouping under CONCACAF of national football organizations in the ''North American Zone''. The NAFU has no organizational structure. The statutes say "''CONCACAF shall ''recognize'' ... The North American Football Union (NAFU)''" (emphasis added). The NAFU provide one of CONCACAF's representatives to the FIFA Executive Committee. History Member associations The North American Football Union has three member associations: The 2015 edition of the CONCACAF Statutes notes that "Notwithstanding their affiliation to (the) NAFU, (The) Bahamas and Bermuda will participate in the competitions of (the) CFU." Competitions North American Nations Cup The North American Football Union organized 2 North American Nations Cups on 1990 and 1991 to contest on Northern America and Mexico before the CONCACAF Gold Cup was introduced * 1990 North American Nations Cup * 1991 North American Nations Cup * 1992 North American N ...
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List Of Men's National Association Football Teams
This is a list of the men's national association football teams in the world. The FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the world's most important governing body for association football. A majority of national association football teams in the world are members of FIFA or one of its affiliated FIFA confederation, continental confederations. A majority of them also represent sovereign states with wide international recognition, with 188 of 195 United Nations (UN) member and United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, observer states holding membership of FIFA. A notable exception is the United Kingdom, which is not a member of FIFA in its own right but is represented in the governing body by the teams of its four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, constituent countries. Other UN members and one observer state have either held membership in a confederation in the past and subsequently lost it, or have never belon ...
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Victor Montagliani
Victor Montagliani (; born September 12, 1965) is a Canadian businessman, association football, soccer executive, and the president of CONCACAF. He is a vice president of the FIFA Council. Biography He is a former player of amateur soccer club side Columbus F.C. In his professional career, he was a manager at Hogan & Cox Insurance Adjusters in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Maple Ridge before being transferred to Vancouver in 2003. He attended Simon Fraser University. He was the president of the British Columbia Soccer Association in 2005. During his time at BC SA, he was supportive of Sikh players wearing a patka should they want to, after a match official had told a 17 year old player to remove it or leave the game. He was voted in as president of the Canadian Soccer Association in May 2012. In February 2016, he announced his intention to become the President of CONCACAF. He won the presidency on May 12, 2016, defeating Larry Mussenden of Bermuda. References

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List Of Presidents Of CONCACAF
The following is a list of presidents of CONCACAF. CONCACAF is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean Presidents of CONCACAF See also *List of presidents of FIFA *List of presidents of AFC *List of presidents of CAF *List of presidents of UEFA *List of presidents of CONMEBOL *List of presidents of OFC References

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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ...
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Confederación Centroamericana Y Del Caribe De Fútbol
The Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol (), abbreviated as CCCF, was the governing body of association football, football in Central America and the Caribbean from 1938 to 1961, and a predecessor confederation of CONCACAF. Founded in 1938 under the president Héctor Beeche, who was the confederation's first president. CCCF merged with North American Football Confederation, NAFC to found the current CONCACAF in 1961. Member associations * * (Former NAFC member 1946–1955) * (Later as ) * * * * * * * (Participated on 1960 CCCF Championship) * Aruba National Football Team, Aruba (Participated on 1955 CCCF Championship) Competitions The CCCF organized one competition for senior national teams, one competition for youth national teams and one club competition. *CCCF Championship (1941–1961) *CCCF Youth Championship (1954–1960) *Campeonato Centroamericano (1959 and 1961) See also *North American Football Confederation, NAFC *CCCF Championship *Campeonato Cent ...
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North American Football Confederation
The North American Football Confederation (), abbreviated as NAFC, was the governing body of association football in North America from 1946 to 1961, and a predecessor confederation of CONCACAF. Founded in 1946 under the president Carlos Alonso who was elected on 19 December 1946 in Havana. NAFC merged with Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol, CCCF to found the current CONCACAF in 1961. Member associations * * (transferred to the Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol, CCCF in 1955) * * NAFC Championship The NAFC Championship was an association football competition organized by NAFC as its top regional tournament for men's senior national teams from North America. ;Notes: ''Italic'' — Hosts See also *Confederacion Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol, CCCF *CCCF Championship *Campeonato Centroamericano *CONCACAF *North American Football Union, NAFU *Central American Football Union, UNCAF *Caribbean Football Union, CFU References E ...
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Philippe Moggio
Philippe Moggio is a French-Colombian former professional tennis player, banker, sports executive and current General Secretary of CONCACAF. Moggio was appointed to the position in May 2016. He represented Colombia at the 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual .... References External links * 1973 births Colombian people of French descent Living people Colombian male tennis players {{Colombia-tennis-bio-stub ...
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundary, maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. Mexico covers 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi), and is the List of countries by area, thirteenth-largest country in the world by land area. With a population exceeding 130 million, Mexico is the List of countries by population, tenth-most populous country in the world and is home to the Hispanophone#Countries, largest number of native Spanish speakers. Mexico City is the capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city, which ranks among the List of cities by population, most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Human presence in Mexico dates back to at least 8,000 BC. Mesoamerica, considered a cradle ...
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