Tuesday, August 16

Joao Havelenge former FIFA president is dead

 
Former FIFA President, João Havelenge, has died at the age of 100. Havelange served as the seventh FIFA president between 1974 and 1998. He resigned as Fifa’s honorary president in April 2013 following an investigation into bribery allegations and was admitted to hospital the following year with a lung infection.


Havelange had a heart pacemaker implanted in 2006. He was hospitalized for more than two months, including several weeks in intensive care, in 2012 because of an infection in his right ankle.
Joao served as a member of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) from 1963 to 2011. He was born on May 8th 1916.
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