ZURICH (AP) — FIFA President Sepp Blatter says world soccer’s governing body should remove the honorary presidency it bestowed on its disgraced former boss Joao Havelange.
Blatter told Swiss weekly Sonntags Blick in an interview published Sunday that Havelange “has to go.”
In May at a FIFA congress in Budapest he had led a standing ovation for the ailing 96-year-old Havelange.
Pressure on Blatter has grown after FIFA published a Swiss prosecutor’s report Wednesday confirming Havelange accepted kickbacks from marketing agency ISL in the 1990s, while Blatter was a senior FIFA official.
