Victor Montagliani, the Canadian Soccer Association president, is running for president of the game’s governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean, whose past three presidents have been charged with corruption by United States prosecutors.

Gordon Derrick, the Caribbean Football Union president, also threw his hat into the ring yesterday and will run for the job against Mark Rodrigues, of Guyana, and Larry Mussenden, the Bermuda Football Association president, who announced his intention to run last month.

“There’s a lot of really good people in the game,” Montagliani said. “But I think it’s time for maybe the silent majority to not be silent any more, and I consider myself part of that.”

Montagliani has served as CSA president since 2012. Concacaf members are scheduled to elect a new president on May 12 in Mexico City, before a Fifa Congress.

Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago, Concacaf’s president from 1990-2011, was indicted in May on charges of racketeering conspiracy, wire-fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy and money laundering. He is fighting extradition.

Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands, Concacaf’s president from 2012 until he was indicted in May, pleaded guilty in November to racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, and agreed to forfeit more than $6.7 million.

Alfred Hawit of Honduras, Concacaf’s president from May until he was indicted in November, was charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, wire fraud, wire-fraud conspiracy, money laundering and money laundering conspiracy. He has pleaded not guilty.

“The events have sullied our sport and badly undermined the public’s trust in football’s governing bodies,” Montagliani wrote in a letter announcing his candidacy. “If football is deserving of the devotion of such a large swath of the world’s population, then it needs to be governed in a principled and professional way that, above all else, protects the integrity of the game.

“I believe my unique journey in football as a player, administrator, and executive has prepared me particularly well to lead Concacaf at this important moment.”

Mussenden said much the same thing when he announced his intention to run, a journey he said he had been encouraged to embark on by others in the region.

“We had looked for good leadership over the last umpteen years,” Mussenden said. “Apparently, it wasn’t there.”

The Bermuda Football Association president said he had been approached by several people over the past couple of months about running, and finally decided to do so after the Concacaf meeting in Antigua.

Mussenden said he would “respect the requests of those who have asked me to do this” and said he was looking forward to the challenge of getting Concacaf “back on track”.

• Six Central European federations have confirmed their support for Gianni Infantino’s bid to succeed Sepp Blatter as Fifa president.

Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, and Slovakia say they will vote for the Uefa secretary general in the February 26 elections, according to Austria federation president Leo Windtner.

Following an annual meeting of the six federations, Windtner says “our candidate is Gianni Infantino. That’s obvious.”

Windtner called on all European federations to back Infantino in the five-candidate race, saying: “Uefa has not always acted as a unity, it will be necessary to act together toward the Fifa congress.”

The other candidates are Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman of Bahrain, former Fifa vice-president Prince Ali of Jordan, former Fifa official Jérôme Champagne of France, and South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale.