JOHANNESBURG - Former Fifa president Joao Havelange has died in a Rio de Janeiro's Samaritano clinic at the age of a hundred.
Havelange changed into the longest serving Fifa president and the primary non-eu head of the world football's governing body, succeeding disgraced former boss Sepp Blatter who took over the reigns in 1998.
Havelange become the Fifa president credited for turning the arena soccer governing frame into a multi-billion rand agency at some stage in his 24-year reign.
He took over from Englishman Sir Stanley Rous in 1974 and led the arena Cup’s enlargement from sixteen groups to 32.
the former Olympic swimmer and water polo player for Brazil became allegedly worried in bribery and corruption in 2013, which forced him to step down as Fifa's honorary president.
He were in and out of clinic in recent months, struggling with breathing troubles.
The Engenhao stadium in Rio de Janeiro, where many of the Rio Olympic occasions are currently underway, become named in his honour.
Havelange changed into the longest serving Fifa president and the primary non-eu head of the world football's governing body, succeeding disgraced former boss Sepp Blatter who took over the reigns in 1998.
He changed into additionally a former Olympian and member of the global Olympic Committee.
Havelange become the Fifa president credited for turning the arena soccer governing frame into a multi-billion rand agency at some stage in his 24-year reign.
He took over from Englishman Sir Stanley Rous in 1974 and led the arena Cup’s enlargement from sixteen groups to 32.
the former Olympic swimmer and water polo player for Brazil became allegedly worried in bribery and corruption in 2013, which forced him to step down as Fifa's honorary president.
He were in and out of clinic in recent months, struggling with breathing troubles.
The Engenhao stadium in Rio de Janeiro, where many of the Rio Olympic occasions are currently underway, become named in his honour.
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