Ricardo Teixeira (football official)

Ricardo Teixeira (left) and the Brazilian President Lula .

Ricardo Terra Teixeira (born June 20, 1947 in Carlos Chagas , Minas Gerais ) is a Brazilian sport functional . From 1989 to 2012 he was President of the Brazilian National Football Association (CBF) and from 1994 to 2012 a member of the FIFA Executive Committee . Under Teixeira's leadership, the CBF was awarded the contract by the FIFA Executive Committee on October 30, 2007 to host the 2014 World Cup . In the course of his career, he was repeatedly confronted with allegations of corruption , tax evasion and money laundering and eventually withdrew from the management team of FIFA due to proven bribery assumptions.

Private

Teixeira was studying law in Rio de Janeiro when he married Lúcia, daughter of the then President of the Brazilian Football Association, João Havelange , in 1966 at the age of 19 . The marriage ended in divorce in 1997. In the 1974 first-born son Ricardo Teixeira Havelange, the mother's surname was added as the main name. He also has another son and daughter with her who was director of strategic planning and organizational support in the organizing committee of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Career as a functionary

Teixeira was elected 18th President of the CBF on January 16, 1989. He thus succeeded Octávio Pinto Guimarães . In the election he prevailed against Nabi Abi Chedid. On March 12, 2012, he resigned from office for health reasons. His successor was José Maria Marin . A few days later, on March 19, 2012, he also resigned from his position as a member of the FIFA Executive Committee.

Teixeira's career as chairman of the association was paved with scandals such as nepotism, expenses, duty-unpaid imports and the like. In the course of the corruption scandal surrounding the sports marketing agency International Sport and Leisure , which went bankrupt in 2001 , the public prosecutor of the canton of Zug determined by means of a dismissal order on May 11, 2010 that he and his then-father-in-law João Havelange had received bribes totaling 21.9 million Swiss francs for years had.

In the course of the award of the World Cup to Brazil, Teixeira caused confusion with twisted truths and verbal interruptions. He was also the focus of parliamentary committees of inquiry on several occasions. He is said to have negotiated a contract with the Organizing Committee of the Football World Cup 2014 (COL) together with the CBF, according to which he would share half of a vulnerable profit, but a loss would be borne by the CBF to 99.99 percent. In 2011 he boasted that he could "do any wrong [he] wants".

Web links

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1. ↑ João Havelange obituary , The Guardian, August 16, 2016
2. ↑ João Havelange's Granddaughter Irritates World Cup Executives by Saying the Money Had Already Been Spent or Stolen , folha.uol.com.br, May 29, 2014
3. ↑ Tobias Buyer: Brazil's soccer boss Teixeira resigns. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 12, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2012 . 
4. ^ Ricardo Terra Teixeira: Letter of resignation to CONMEBOL. (PDF) CONMEBOL, accessed on March 19, 2012 (Spanish, (107 kB)). 
5. ↑ Disconnection order of May 11, 2010 of the public prosecutor of the canton of Zug (PDF; 192 kB)
6. ^ Jean-François Tanda: Payments in the millions to functionaries - Blatter knew it. In: Handelszeitung , July 11, 2012.
7. ↑ Jens Weinreich : The secret list of bribery in world sports. In: Spiegel Online , April 28, 2013.
8. ↑ Objection undesirable. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 31, 2007.
9. ↑ Football World Cup 2014: A thorn-rich path, zdf.de, October 29, 2007
10. ↑ Teixeira cashes in at WM. n-tv , November 22, 2010, accessed November 23, 2010 . 
11. ↑ Thomas Kistner: Unassailable, confident, corrupt. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 10, 2011, accessed on August 10, 2011 .