Lionel Haven

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] 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.

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.

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.

[4] His older brother Sam also played for the national team and was a president of the BFA.