Photograph: Pierre Michel Jean/AFP/Getty Images‘Dadou’In February 1972 Jean-Bart was part of a group that formed AS Tigresses, one of Haiti’s first female football clubs. He became vice-president of the Fédération Haïtienne De Football (FHF), Haiti’s football association, in 1991, automatically gaining him Fifa membership. He was elected FHF president in 2000 a few weeks after Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, won his second term in office. Warner also “assured the gathering that the Goal-financed centre will allow Haiti to recapture some of its past football glories”. Jean-Bart replaced him as the acting president of the Caribbean Football Union before Gordon Derrick took over in 2012.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2021 07:52 UTC