Lionel Haven
Personal information
Full name Lionel E. Haven
Date of birth (1965-12-30) December 30, 1965
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
United FC
Cavalier
International career
1987–2000 Bahamas 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lionel Haven (born 30 December 1965) is a former football executive and retired association football player from the Bahamas.

International career

Haven played for the Bahamas in Pan-American Games Qualifiers in 1987 against Mexico[1] and in all 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches in 2000.[2]

Administration

After retiring as a player, Haven was long-time head coach of Cavalier FC[3] and served as Executive Director and General Secretary of the Bahamas Football Association[4] and also became a member of the Executive Committee of the Caribbean Football Union in 2001.

FIFA Ban

In April 2016, Haven was banned for five years by FIFA Ethics Committee from all football-related activities due to non-disclosure of information around payments at a CFU event.[5] The verdict was a fine of $3,000. Haven's ban was due to an alleged cash for votes controversy. It happened at a hotel in Trinidad, where the Caribbean football executives were given $40,000 in envelopes ahead of the 2011 FIFA presidential election.[6] He later denied any wrongdoing.[7]

Personal life

Haven graduated from the University of Charleston, West Virginia in 1989. He then worked as an accountant and is currently CEO at a land title research company.[4]

His older brother Sam also played for the national team and was a president of the BFA. He died in August 2014.[8] Two of his daughters played for the Bahamas Women U-17 team in 2012.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1987 NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN - RSSSF
  2. ↑ 2000 NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN - RSSSF
  3. ↑ Haven receives five-year ban from soccer;fined US$3,130 Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine - The Nassau Guardian
  4. 1 2 Profile Archived 2016-06-17 at the Wayback Machine - Bahamas World Relays
  5. ↑ Independent Ethics Committee bans Mr Lionel Haven - FIFA
  6. ↑ admin (2016-05-04). "Lionel Haven, 5 year ban". Caribbean News. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  7. ↑ Haven defends his silence in FIFA scandal - The Nassau Guardian
  8. ↑ Soccer great Sam Haven passes away - The Nassau Guardian
  9. ↑ U.S. routs U-17 women's debutante Bahamas - CONCACAF


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