João Havelange

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João Havelange (2010)

Jean-Marie Faustin Goedefroid de Havelange , João Havelange for short (born May 8, 1916 in Rio de Janeiro ; † August 16, 2016 there ), was a Brazilian football official and lawyer .

From 1974 to 1998 he was the seventh president of the world football association FIFA and from 1963 to 2011 a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He was also Honorary President of FIFA. Under Havelange's leadership, FIFA developed into the largest sports association in the world; In 2005, it included associations from more countries than the United Nations has members. During his 24-year tenure, Havelange built a mutual benefit system called the “food chain” .

Havelange has been repeatedly criticized for its leadership style, which is described as autocratic. In 2011, the long-standing suspicion that Havelange had received bribes amounting to millions during his time as FIFA President was confirmed. He therefore had to resign from the Olympic Committee.

Life

Havelange's father was an arms dealer from Liege in Belgium who had emigrated to Brazil. The father died when João Havelange was 17 years old. At the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 Havelange served as swimmers while at the Games in Helsinki in 1952 he joined as a beach ball on poker players. Havelange studied law at the Universidade Federal Fluminense .

Havelange was also present in Uruguay's victory in the Maracanã Stadium , the so-called Maracanaço , in 1950 , as well as in twelve other football World Cup finals.

Secretary General Sepp Blatter and President João Havelange on the occasion of the 1982 World Cup

From 1958 to 1975 Havelange was President of the Brazilian Sports Confederation, which was not only responsible for soccer, but also for 23 other amateur sports. But football was the dominant sport in Brazil. Havelange became President of FIFA on June 11, 1974 and held this position until June 8, 1998. His successor was Sepp Blatter .

He countered his critics, who often described him as a despot : “When I got to the FIFA headquarters in Zurich , I found an old house and a little money in a drawer. When I left my post 24 years later, FIFA had contracts and properties worth over $ 4 billion. "

In his hometown of Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic Stadium was named after Havelange for the 2016 Summer Games ; it was completed in 2007. The main building of CONCACAF (North and Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation) is also named after him.

In December 2011, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked Havelange to resign, otherwise he would have been expelled from the IOC because of proven corruption. Havelange was one of the main beneficiaries of the largest known system of corruption in sports history: ISL / ISMM went bankrupt in 2001; In the subsequent criminal proceedings it was established by a criminal court that the ISL had paid a total of 138 million Swiss francs bribes to numerous sports officials between 1989 and 1999 .

In 2012 Havelange was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for “its commitment to social justice”. Havelange was delighted with the nomination and asserted that "never took money from anyone".

Because of the corruption allegations against him, Havelange resigned as Honorary President of FIFA on April 30, 2013.

Havelange died in August 2016 during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 100 in a hospital in the Botafogo district . He left behind his wife and daughter, who was married to Brazilian football official Ricardo Teixeira until their divorce in 1997 . He had three grandchildren.

As part of the WDR documentary series Sport Inside , Havelange's relationships to organized crime in Brazil, including Castor de Andrade, were revealed at the end of 2016 .

Awards (excerpt)

literature

  • Thomas Kistner, Jens Weinreich: The billion dollar game. Football, money and media . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-596-13810-8 .

Web links

Commons : João Havelange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ João Havelange, ex-presidente da Fifa, morre aos 100 anos no Rio , globo.com, accessed on August 16, 2016
  2. ↑ Jens Weinreich: The inglorious departure of João Havelanges ; Article in NZZ Online from December 6, 2011, accessed December 6, 2011
  3. ↑ Tobias Buyer : We come full circle: Havelange's greedy grandchildren . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 5, 2015, p. 38.
  4. ↑ spiegel.de: Mild sentences for IOC top officials (December 8, 2011)
  5. ↑ Jens Weinreich: Bribe scandal worth millions: FIFA officials buy themselves free. Spiegel Online, June 25, 2010, accessed March 10, 2011 .
  6. ^ Roland Zorn: Joao Havelange: Resignation of the Caudillo ; Article on faz.net from December 5, 2011; accessed on July 11, 2012
  7. ↑ spiegel.de July 11, 2012: Havelange and Teixeira received bribes. - Judicial documents show that the former FIFA President and his son-in-law collected millions in the ISL affair. Fifa boss Blatter is also coming under pressure.
  8. ↑ Original source (PDF file; 187 kB)
  9. ^ Said & Done , Observer article , May 11, 2013
  10. ↑ aha / dpa / sid / rtr: Corruption in world football: Havelange resigns as Fifa honorary president. Spiegel Online, April 30, 2013, accessed April 30, 2013 .
  11. ↑ João Havelange, Who Built and Ruled World Soccer With Firm Hand, Dies at 100 , New York Times, August 16, 2016
  12. ↑ João Havelange obituary , The Guardian, August 16, 2016
  13. ↑ organized by Joao Havelange - The Godfather's Friend , on wdr.de, from December 2016. Retrieved on June 12, 2018.
  14. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Havelange, João
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Havelange, Jean-Marie Faustin Godefroid de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian Olympic and football official
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH 16th August 2016
Place of death Rio de Janeiro