Jean-Marie Faustin Goedefroid Havelange died in disgrace three months after his 100th birthday, forced to resign his post on the International Olympic Committee and the honorary title of honorary FIFA president.
His disciple, and avowed fan, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, 79, has just been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his bad deeds surrounding the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Nuzman presided over the Olympic Committee of Brazil between 1975 and 2017, when he ended up being arrested by the Federal Police and resigned.
Before, the former son-in-law of Havelange, Ricardo Terra Teixeira, 74, also had to resign from the position he held between 1989 and 2012 as president of the CBF, caught in the FIFAgate scandal and unable to leave the country.
José Maria Marin, 89, succeeded him, imprisoned in the United States for the same reason, he also resigned in 2015.
His successor was Marco Polo Del Nero, 80, whose fate and for the same reasons, another one prevented from traveling outside Brazil, had to resign from his position on the FIFA Executive Committee, ended up banned from football, but still made his successor in the CBF , in 2018.
This one, Rogério Langanke Caboclo, 48, is removed from the presidency due to moral and sexual harassment.
May the rare reader and the rare reader be spared the charts of smaller top hats in the confederations and federations of judo, swimming, volleyball, basketball, tennis, athletics, as well as in the largest Brazilian clubs, without any, repeat, no exception .
Of the said 13 biggest clubs in the country, all have or had presidents grappling with hairy cases of corruption.
Because sport lends itself, like few areas of activity, because it makes use of the intangibility of the amounts that involve it, money laundering and commissions behind the scenes.
How much is an ace worth? It’s a genius? And broadcast contracts for major events? Or a stadium, how much does it cost?
Hence the little alternation of power, because whoever gets to the top of the pyramid of the sport’s superstructure doesn’t want to give it up for nothing.
Suffice it to say that the COB, where Nuzman reigned for 21 years, officially founded in 1935, had only eight presidents in 86 years.
One of them, Admiral Áttila Aché, only spent ten months in the post, in 1963, replaced by Major Sylvio de Magalhães Padilha, the record holder, who stayed there for 27 years.
Havelange, the “capo di tutti capi”, remained the football boss here for 17 years and Teixeira for 23.
It’s hard to say whether power or money or both inspired them the most, but in the case of both, one thing is certain: they never liked football.
Nuzman, on the other hand, played volleyball, competed in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and made his sport the second most popular in Brazil when he presided over the CBV.
Lost in greed and arrogance.
And allow me to vent: I don’t complain about having been sued several times, more than a hundred, by Teixeira, Nuzman and Marin, because it’s a game played.
It is part of the job to publish what the powerful do not want to read, even without adjectives, and to answer for what is published.
The painful thing was, at times, rare as they were, to see judges give reason to the tricks.
Celebrating convictions or arrests is far from my favorite sport.
Keeping the hope alive of seeing the sport run by clean and competent people are another 500.
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