Ricardo Teixeira

Ricardo Terra Teixeira ( born June 20, 1947 in Carlos Chagas, Minas Gerais ) is a Brazilian sports official. He was 1989-2012 President of the Brazilian national football federation (CBF ) and from 1994 to 2012 a member of the FIFA Executive Committee. In Teixeira's leadership of the CBF received on 30 October 2007 by the FIFA Executive Committee the bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2014. Throughout his career, he was repeatedly confronted with the accusation of corruption, tax evasion and money laundering, and eventually withdrew due to proven bribe assumptions from the control loop, the FIFA back.

Private

Teixeira studied law in Rio de Janeiro, when he in 1966 at the age of 19 years, Lucia, the daughter of the then President of the Brazilian Football Federation João Havelange, married. The marriage ended in divorce in 1997. In 1974 Ricardo Teixeira Havelange firstborn son, unusually, the surname of the mother was readjusted so declared as the main name.

Career as a functionary

Teixeira was elected on 16 January 1989 on the 18th President of the CBF. He thus entered the successor of Octávio Pinto Guimarães. In the election he won against Nabi Abi Chedid. On 12 March 2012, he resigned for health reasons from his post. He was replaced by Jose Maria Marin. Few days later, on 19 February 2012, he resigned and his position as member of the FIFA Executive Committee.

The career Teixeira as the association chairman was paved by scandals such as nepotism, fees cavalry, uncleared imports and the like. In the wake of the corruption scandal surrounding the 2001 went into bankruptcy sports marketing agency International Sport and Leisure, the prosecutor of the canton of train introduced on 11 May 2010 fixed with have that he and his former father-in João Havelange years received bribes in the amount of 21.9 million Swiss francs had.

In the course of the World Cup award to Brazil Teixeira made ​​with twisted truths and verbal misfires for irritation. He also starred multiple times in the view point of parliamentary inquiry committees. The organizing committee of the FIFA World Cup 2014 ( COL) he should have negotiated with the CBF an agreement whereby he participates in benefit from any profit in half, a loss would be borne by the CBF but to 99.99 percent. In 2011, he boasted that he could " commit any crime that I want."