Alfredo Hawit Banegas (born 8 October 1951) is a Honduran lawyer and former footballer. He is the head of the

National Autonomous Federation of Football of Honduras The National Autonomous Federation of Football of Honduras ( es, Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras), known as FENAFUTH, is the official football governing body in Honduras and is in charge of the Honduras national team. FENAFU ...

and was made the interim head of

CONCACAF The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...

on 4 June 2011.

Club career

As a player, he played professional football for Honduran club sides Progreso,

Club Deportivo Olimpia Club Deportivo Olimpia is a professional Honduran football club based in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán. The club is the nation's most successful team both in the domestic league and in international club competitions. History Olimpia was f ...

and

F.C. Motagua Club de Fútbol Motagua (), formerly Club Deportivo Motagua up to 2017, is an association football club, located in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras. F.C. Motagua was founded as ''Club Deportivo Motagua'' on 29 August 1928. The club competes ...

. He scored 11 goals for them altogether. He is one of only few Honduran players who made his debut for a senior side, aged only 15.

Football Federation Career

Hawit, having seen Jack Warner's reign as CONCACAF President last twenty one years, proposed that the CONCACAF president should be able to serve only one four year-term at a time and for the

Caribbean Football Union The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) is the representative organization for football associations in the Caribbean. It represents 25 FIFA member nations, as well as 6 territories that are not affiliated to FIFA. The Union was established in Januar ...

UNCAF 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 Pa ...

and

North American Football Union The North American Football Union (NAFU; french: Union Nord-Américaine de Football; es, Unión Norteamericana de Fútbol) is a regional grouping under CONCACAF of national football organizations in the ''North American Zone''. The NAFU has no o ...

to nominate the president on a rotary basis. He was an interim president of

. After the arrest of Jeffrey Webb on 27 May 2015, Hawit was made president of

. Hawit himself was then arrested on corruption charges on 3 Dec 2015 in the Baur au Lac hotel in

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. On 4 December 2015 he was banned for 90 days by the

FIFA Ethics Committee The FIFA Ethics Committee is one of FIFA's three judicial bodies. It is organized in two chambers, the ''Investigatory Chamber'' and the ''Adjudicatory Chamber''. Its duties are regulated by several official documents, most importantly the ''FIF ...

. Hawit was found guilty of four conspiracy counts in the sweeping FIFA bribery scandal in April 2016. In December 2016, the FIFA Ethics Committee banned Hawit for life from all football-related activities.

Personal life

Hawit is one of six children of Alfredo Hawit and Emilia Banegas. He spend his childhood in

El Progreso El Progreso () is a city, with a population of 119,260 (2020 calculation), and a municipality located in the Honduran department of Yoro. Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport of San Pedro Sula is located west of the city. To the eas ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

. He is married to María del Carmen Asfura.Cumpleaños de Alfredo Hawit
– La Tribuna

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