Tag: Joao Havelange

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 01:05 UTC

  Brazilian politics, football and bribes, so closely interlinked

  

  When the former boss of Brazilian football was arrested in Zurich in a 2015 graft case that would see him sentenced to prison, his successor in the job didn't lose a minute - he got on the first plane to Rio de Janeiro and didn't look back.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2016 - 20:12 UTC

  Brazilian flag flies at half mast in the Olympics in honor of Joao Havelange

  

  Former FIFA president and IOC member Joao Havelange has died aged 100. The Brazilian, whose name is one of those used for the track and field stadium for the Rio Games (Estádio Olímpico João Havelange), played a key role in bringing the Olympics to his country. He called on IOC members at the host city vote in 2009 to “join me in celebrating my 100th birthday'” at the Rio Olympics.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2013 - 02:13 UTC

  South American FIFA officials took “bribes”; European Blatter ‘was clumsy’

  

  Joao Havelange has quit as FIFA honorary president while Sepp Blatter has been cleared of misconduct in the ISL bribery case, a report by FIFA ethics committee said. The report described the behaviour of Havelange as “morally and ethically reproachable” in his dealings with ISL, FIFA former marketing partner which went bankrupt in 2001.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2013 - 00:33 UTC

  Uruguay’s Figueredo replaces Leoz as president of CONMEBOL until 2015

  

  Uruguay’s Eugenio Figueredo was officially appointed president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) in succession to Nicolas Leoz on Tuesday. He is the third Uruguayan to occupy the post.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 04:21 UTC

  FIFA new ethics committee will examine 2018 and 2022 World Cup awards

  

  The lead prosecutor of FIFA new ethics committee confirms he will examine the controversial awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar as well as the ISL scandal and corruption allegations involving Sepp Blatter.

• Tuesday, March 13th 2012 - 01:10 UTC

  Celebrate, “we have exterminated a cancer from Brazilian football”

  

  The head of Brazil’s soccer federation resigned on Monday two years before the South American country hosts the World Cup, putting an end to a 23-year career marked by an unmatched championship record over that period and accusations of corruption off the field. He is replaced by his deputy chief Jose Maria Marin, a former governor of Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 13:42 UTC

  IOC shelves an investigation into former FIFA head Joao Havelange

  

  The International Olympic Committee has shelved an investigation into former FIFA head Joao Havelange after he resigned as an IOC member just days before an ethics hearing into his conduct, IOC President Jacques Rogge told reporters.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  Havelange, 95, again beats his detractors: he resigns from IOC and end ethics inquiry

  

  Former FIFA president Joao Havelange resigned from the International Olympic Committee on Sunday, just days before he was to face an ethics inquiry it was reported by the Sao Paulo press.