Julio Grondona

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Julio Grondona 2007 on the occasion of the France – Argentina soccer match in the Stade de France

Julio Humberto Grondona (born September 18, 1931 in Avellaneda , † July 30, 2014 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine football official . He was President of the Argentine Football Association from 1979 until his death and a member of the FIFA Executive Committee for 26 years .

Career

With his brother Grondona founded the football club Arsenal de Sarandí in 1957 , which he presided over until 1976. He then became president of the CA Independiente football club for five years . In 1979 he was elected president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) for the first time . His last election for the ninth term was in October 2011.

Since 1988 he has been a member of the FIFA Executive Committee. He was of Joseph Blatter used immediately after taking office in 1998 as Chairman of the Finance Committee. This gave Grondona a complete insight into all of FIFA's financial affairs, including the FIFA President's finances. At his death, Grondona was the senior vice-president of the FIFA Executive Committee and thus senior vice-president.

Since 2011 he has been investigated in Argentina on suspicion of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion in the high double-digit million range. The processes were accelerated by documents that members of an Argentine TV marketing company passed on to the judiciary and the media and published accordingly. Grondona had initially worked with this company in his capacity as head of the football association of Argentina and was bribed by it, but then booted it out. There was never a criminal sentence against Grondona, neither in this criminal case nor in any of the other financial offenses of which he was accused.

Grondona died on July 30, 2014 after heart surgery in a hospital in Buenos Aires.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Julio Grondona  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Argentina: Grondona remains football president. Focus.de, October 19, 2011, accessed on February 24, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b c Thomas Kistner: The man everyone called Don Julio. Süddeutsche.de, July 31, 2014, accessed on August 18, 2014 .
  3. ^ And another FIFA official ... , report by Jens Weinreich on Deutschlandfunk from November 12, 2011
  4. ^ Fifa Vice President Julio Grondona. Blatter's deputy is dead. Süddeutsche.de, July 30, 2014, accessed on July 30, 2014 .
  5. ↑ List of FIFA Order of Merit recipients ( memento of the original from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on October 25, 2012 (PDF; 71 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / resources.fifa.com
personal data
SURNAME Grondona, Julio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grondona, Julio Humberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine football official
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Avellaneda , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 2014
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina