{"id":4537,"date":"2013-04-30T23:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2013-04-30T23:14:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:14:33","slug":"havelange-resigns-as-fifa-honorary-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=4537","title":{"rendered":"Havelange resigns as FIFA honorary president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4FIFA-\u056b-\u057a\u0561\u057f\u057e\u0561\u057e\u0578\u0580-\u0576\u0561\u056d\u0561\u0563\u0561\u0570\u0568-\u0570\u0580\u0561\u056a\u0561\u0580\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576-\u0567-\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056f\u0561\u0575\u0561\u0581\u0580\u0565\u056c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4535\" alt=\"4FIFA-\u056b \u057a\u0561\u057f\u057e\u0561\u057e\u0578\u0580 \u0576\u0561\u056d\u0561\u0563\u0561\u0570\u0568 \u0570\u0580\u0561\u056a\u0561\u0580\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576 \u0567 \u0576\u0565\u0580\u056f\u0561\u0575\u0561\u0581\u0580\u0565\u056c\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4FIFA-\u056b-\u057a\u0561\u057f\u057e\u0561\u057e\u0578\u0580-\u0576\u0561\u056d\u0561\u0563\u0561\u0570\u0568-\u0570\u0580\u0561\u056a\u0561\u0580\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576-\u0567-\u0576\u0565\u0580\u056f\u0561\u0575\u0561\u0581\u0580\u0565\u056c.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>Joao Havelange has resigned as honorary FIFA president over claims that he had accepted bribes, world football&#8217;s governing body announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div>Havelange stood down after being targeted in the findings of an Ethics Committee set up by FIFA to investigate a scandal involving the now bankrupt Swiss-based marketing agency ISL and World Cup television rights.<\/div>\n<div>Havelange, now 96 and in poor health, is alleged to have taken improper payments during his time serving as FIFA&#8217;s seventh president between 1974 and 1998.<\/div>\n<div>His successor, Sepp Blatter, is said to have known about one payment to ISL destined for Havelange of 1.5 million Swiss francs ($1.6 million), with the report concluding that Blatter&#8217;s conduct was &#8220;clumsy&#8221; but not &#8220;criminal&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>FIFA-<\/b><b>\u056b<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>\u057a\u0561\u057f\u057e\u0561\u057e\u0578\u0580<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>\u0576<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Havelange has resigned as honorary FIFA president over claims that he had accepted bribes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[602],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-fifa","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}