João Havelange

João Havelange, born Jean-Marie Faustin Godefroid de Havelange in Rio de Janeiro on 8 May 1916, was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman and sportsman who died on 16 August 2016. As an athlete he swam for Brazil at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where he went out in the heats of the 400 metre and 1500 metre freestyle, and he was part of the Brazilian water polo team that tied for 13th place at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He led the Brazilian delegation to the 1956 Games in Melbourne. He is best known as an administrator: president of the Brazilian Sports Confederation from 1958 to 1973, a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1963 to 2011, and seventh president of FIFA from 1974 to 1998, the second longest tenure in its history. His later years were marked by bribery findings against him.