The Brazilian, who was predecessor to Sepp
Blatter at world football's governing body, serving
as president between 1974 and 1998, has died in
his native Rio Former FIFA president Joao Havelange has died in
Rio de Janeiro at the age of 100, according to
reports in Brazil. Havelange was the first non-European chief of
world football's governing body between 1974
and 1998, when he was succeeded by Sepp
Blatter and received the title of honorary
president. He resigned from the latter largely ceremonial role
in 2013 after a report by FIFA's ethics chairman
Hans-Joachim Eckert ruled he had taken bribes as
part of a scandal involving the now-defunct
International Sports and Leisure (ISL) sports
marketing agency. Havelange competed as an Olympic swimmer for
Brazil at Berlin in 1936 and was a member of their
1952 water polo team in Helsinki. At the Melbourne 1956 Games he was Brazil's chef
de mission before joining the International
Olympic Committee in 1963. As the IOC's longest-serving member, Havelange
stood down in 2011 with an ethics hearing
pending over the ISL affair. The Olympic Stadium at the on-going Rio Games,
which began three months on from his 100th
birthday, is named in his honour.

Rest in peace boss.

RIP

RIP to the dead.. .