FIFA: Joao Havelange, president from 1974-1998, passes away at age 100

The Brazilian Joao Havelange (100 years old), FIFA president from 1974 to 1998, died in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on 16/08/2016. He had been hospitalised with lung problems in April 2016, just before his one hundredth birthday on 08/05/2016.

Joao Havelange was FIFA president for 24 years, the second longest tenure as head of the international federation behind that of the Frenchman Jules Rimet (for 33 years, from 1921 to 1954). Havelange was also president of the CBF from 1958 to 1974, and remains the only non-European to have been FIFA president.

Made an honorary president of FIFA in 1998, Joao Havelange resigned from this office on 18/04/2013, after being accused of receiving tens of millions of dollars of bribes from ISL, a media rights and sponsorship agency that managed the allocation of TV rights for the World Cup before going bankrupt in 2001.

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Joao Havelange

• 1998 - 18/04/2013: Honorary…