Joaquín Soria Terrazas

Joaquín Soria Terrazas
President of CONCACAF
Preceded by Ramón Coll Jaumet
Succeeded by Jack Warner
Personal details
Died October 29, 1990(1990-10-29)
Nationality Mexico

Joaquín Soria Terrazas was a Mexican athletics director. Soria Terrazas was president of the amateur sector of the Mexican Football Federation. He was president of CONCACAF between 1969 and 1990, he was succeeded by Trinidadian Jack Warner.[1]

He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the World Cup from 1969 until 1989 and the Olympics from 1964 to 1990.

Soria Terrazas was Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 1970 World Cup and the 1968 Olympic Games and the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship. He died of diabetes on October 29 of 1990 . He was inaugurated into the CONCACAF Hall of Fame in 1992.

References

  1. "Hall of Fame". CONCACAF. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
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