As a player, he played professional football for Honduran club sides Progreso, Club Deportivo Olimpia and F.C. Motagua. He scored 11 goals for them altogether.[3] He is one of only few Honduran players who made his debut for a senior side, aged only 15.[4]
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, UNCAF and North American Football Union to nominate the president on a rotary basis. He was an interim president of CONCACAF.[5]
After the arrest of Jeffrey Webb on 27 May 2015, Hawit was made president of CONCACAF. Hawit himself was then arrested on corruption charges on 3 Dec 2015 in the Baur au Lac hotel in Zürich.[6] On 4 December 2015 he was banned for 90 days by the FIFA Ethics Committee.[7] Hawit was found guilty of four conspiracy counts in the sweeping FIFA bribery scandal in April 2016.[8][9]
In December 2016, the FIFA Ethics Committee banned Hawit for life from all football-related activities.[10][11]
Personal life
Hawit is one of six children of Alfredo Hawit and Emilia Banegas. He spend his childhood in El Progreso, Honduras.[12] He is married to María del Carmen Asfura.[13]
