Victor Montagliani did not have a brilliant career in the courts: it played at the amateur level with a club called Columbus and led the team of employees of an insurance company. It was precisely in the insurance sector in which Montagliani obtained success and fortune. And that experience is perhaps you very useful in his new role as President of CONCACAF.
The governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean urgently requires a "policy" against corruption. Montagliani, of 50 years, exceeded by 25-16 to the Larry Mussenden Bermudian in the vote on Thursday between members of CONCACAF, which holds its Congress in the Mexican capital.
"I promise to work for you every day and be there for you, but I also hope their support to have unity and camaraderie in the region," said Montagliani in speech after his election as top dog of the CONCACAF, that was led by a Committee since its interim President Alfredo Hawit was arrested in December in Switzerland on charges of corruption. In fact, two Presidents of CONCACAF have left office in a year, amid allegations. Jeffrey Webb, of the Cayman Islands, has found guilty of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering, while the Honduran Hawit accepted that it colluded with other leaders for granting marketing rights to companies in Florida and Argentina in Exchange for bribes paid in bank accounts that he and his family controlled in Panama and Honduras. The predecessor of Webb, the Trinidad and Tobago Jack Warner, was charged in may, also as part of the corruption scandal that shook the FIFA.
"These events have sullied our sport and have undermined the public's confidence in the agencies that govern football," wrote Montagliani Monday, in an open letter that highlighted their attributes to lead the CONCACAF. "If football deserves the devotion of so much of the world's population, it needs to be governed in a manner subject to principles and professionalism, that above all, protect the integrity of this game."
Apart from plays on words, can Montagliani as insurance Executive experience be valuable to his new position? "I think that my unique, as a football player, Manager and Executive career has prepared me particularly well to lead the CONCACAF at this important time," it was considered in the letter. And in statements to the press before the Congress, Montagliani considered alien to the temptations of corruption. "I've had a real success as an entrepreneur, and I'm not here for the money, but because I love football", said.
After graduating in 1988 from political science and French at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, his hometown in Canada, Montagliani contemplated the possibility of studying law. But two years later he ran for a job at Guardian Insurance Co. He worked two years in the insurance company, before moving to Hogan and Cox, another company of the province of British Columbia where Montagliani took off professionally and where he was coach of the football team.
"I've been able to take advantage of those values that teaches the sport, knowing that the insulation does not help, but the collective work. I've been able to bring this to a corporate environment", he said. In 2005, he chaired the British Columbia Soccer Association. And four years ago he was elected at the head of the Canadian Association. Then, the breakdown in the dome of the CONCACAF opened the door to the office that was voted on Thursday. He is the first Canadian President in the history of CONCACAF and breaks with an uninterrupted streak of Caribbean leaders, which dated back to 1990. Its designation would instead approach the leadership of the Agency towards the dome of influence of the United States and Mexico, the members with more economic power in CONCACAF, which supported the candidacy of Montagliani.
"Today is the time for a person who can unify a Confederation because we have this culture of three regions: the Caribbean, Central America and the North." "I don't know if I am Canadian, or because I have a family tradition, but I think it is time to be together, as 41 Member countries", but said the leader, before the vote
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