Comments on: Former FIFA President João Havelange: “1966 & 1974 World Cups Were Fixed”

By: alan

alan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:18:29 +0000

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More pompous blustering from Uncle Joao. As some of you have already said, isn’t it funny that nothing was mentioned about Argentina ‘78?

Nor Italy in 1934, which is the only World Cup with any definite evidence that the outcome of the tournament was fixed in Italy’s favour.

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what rubbish wheres you evidence for this then!

By: Michael Oliver

Michael Oliver — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:58:36 +0000

More pompous blustering from Uncle Joao. As some of you have already said, isn’t it funny that nothing was mentioned about Argentina ‘78?

Nor Italy in 1934, which is the only World Cup with any definite evidence that the outcome of the tournament was fixed in Italy’s favour.

By: ken higgs

ken higgs — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:54:22 +0000

Havelange is having himself on. Brazil weren’t even close to being the best team in the world in 1974 (or 66). If Brazil had the same team as 1970, then they can count themselves thankful that Holland didn’t have team they did in 74. They’d have got slaughtered.

As for fixing, the most obviously fixed WC was 78.
FIFA president at the time?

‘Honest’ Jaoa, I believe……….

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:11:43 +0000

Brasil’s team in 1974 was NOT the 1970 team, nor even a shadow of it. There were 13 new players in the Brazilian squad and they were missing the core of the starting XI from the 1970 final. I wonder what he can tell us about 1978, the most controversial World Cup during his reign.

By: Bruno Romani

Bruno Romani — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:51:32 +0000

eveybody knows that 66 was stolen.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:44:53 +0000

From what my Dutch family told me 1974 was pretty suspicious.

But 1934 was no better.

By: tito

tito — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:24:51 +0000

1966 & 1974 were before my time, so it’s hard to say from personal experience, though ‘66 was pretty famously rigged.

2002 was obviously as crooked as they come.

There has always been bias in these tournaments – look at Turkey’s treatment this year – and sadly there will likely always be… in a perverse way, it adds to the achievement for the winners whose victories came in spite of the wretched machinations of these corrupt organizations and individuals.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:17:52 +0000

As if anyone believes anything that corrupt old ward-heeler says, anyway. Havelange was a disaster for the world game and his outrageous siphoning of FIFA money into his own pocket leaves him no status or credibility in the “football family”.

By: julien

julien — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:29:50 +0000

Good points, Rami.

By: Rami

Rami — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:21:23 +0000

Always tough to know what to make of match fixing claims. All I know is that it’s not at all outside the realm of possibility… It’s an easy thing to say but it’s a harder thing to prove. His evidence isn’t exactly a smoking gun.