President of the BVI Football Association (BVIFA), Avanell ‘Clarky’ Morton, has been nominated to sit on CONCACAF’s Association Committee as an Assistant Committee Member. Photo: BVIFA

Prominent sports administrator and cultural figure Avanell Morton, aka 'Clarkie', will be honoured at this year's Virgin Gorda Easter Festival. Photo: Facebook

Morton was nominated on Friday, February 27, 2026, and will attend the committee’s inauguration on March 15, 2026, where he will be fully endorsed as a CONCACAF member in the region. 

The CONCACAF Associations Committee manages relations between the Confederation and its 41 member associations, fostering cooperation and development across North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

It also deals with relations between Concacaf and its member associations, proposing measures for optimum cooperation.

This is for the BVI football community- Morton

“It mean’s alot. I mean, we on the inside don’t see what goes on, but people on the outside look at what you do and they reward you…I’ve been doing a lot of work, but I don’t really like taking the recognition, but people see,” Morton told JTV Channel 55’s Cathy O. Richards on Saturday, February 28, 2026.

The position, he said, he accepts “gracefully”. 

“It’s for the BVI football community and the wider world…the BVI is being recognised, that this small country can produce people to represent on committees on the wider stage of the world.”

Morton also sits on the Youth Development Committee for FIFA. 

He has been involved in Virgin Islands (VI) football since the early 1980s haviing played for the national team up until he was injured in 1998. 

Morton then went into the administration of football in the VI until today, and he said he has dedicated a lot of time to football in the VI.

The football administrator is the honouree for the 59th Virgin Gorda Easter Festival scheduled for April 4–6, 2026.