A bombshell, an earthquake at the International Football Federation.
POLICE
In this car, one of them is taken away
from people's sight.
FIFA STREET IN ZURICH SINCE 1932
POLICE
In most governments,
if two vice presidents and several members of the executive committee are indicted,
the president would resign or would be forced to resign.
Why would I resign?
To resign would be like saying I am responsible
for everything that's happening.
RED CARD FOR FIFA NO WORLD CUP WITHOUT WORKERS' RIGHTS
My conscience is clear.
Regarding the arrests carried out, this is another obvious attempt of the US
to extend its jurisdiction to other countries.
When you enter into an election, you do not turn into enemies.
You are temporary adversaries.
João Havelange was the most famous Brazilian in the world.
João Havelange had been an Olympic athlete in swimming.
João Havelange was the president of the Brazilian Sports Confederation.
He had a genuine interest in sports.
He realized that the knowledge he had about sports
could be transformed into political power.
He started learning more about the political situation in FIFA.
He saw that there was a chance.
Havelange said, "While apartheid exists,
if I am elected, South Africa will be banned by FIFA."
And then there's also the suspicion, of course,
that he had money, and that the famous packages,
the brown envelopes,
may have been distributed to delegates at the hotel in Frankfurt
in the days before the congress.
Of course it happened. It's certain it happened.
So unexpected and shocking.
The arrival of Havelange to FIFA
symbolized the arrival of capitalism in FIFA,
in the sense that its identity changed
from being like a club amongst friends,
Europeans who were all very interested in the game,
and became a business.
Soon after being elected president of FIFA,
I had in mind two particularly ambitious projects.
They should benefit, most of all, the youth and Third World countries.
And he said, "You're hired."
I'm sure
that Argentina will host an excellent World Cup.
Economically, it's a rich country.
It has the right conditions, financially speaking,
for us to have a perfect World Cup.
The dictatorship was disastrous for the country.
It brought us pain.
The World Cup was not suspended,
despite all the economic problems the country was having.
The words of the president were, for us, yet another reassurance.
Therefore, we leave here very satisfied and very happy.
They were the first happy moments I remember as a community.
We went from euphoria to sadness
when we found out at the end of the dictatorship
about everything that had happened in those years
and how we were used as puppets.
I kept it there. I kept it there because it was sport, not politics.
It was well-organized,
the discipline was absolute, and it was a great World Cup.
Havelange himself said that football and politics shouldn't mix.
That FIFA is an entity that's non-partisan and non-political.
João Havelange organized a World Cup final
at the Stadium Monumental de Núñez,
a mere 500 meters from the prison of the Argentinian Navy School,
where the objectors to the dictatorship were tortured and killed.
"Because I don't do politics."
Do you understand?
And then he does the worst, the worst kind of politics there is.
The kind that supports dictatorships.
We produce 15,000 shoes, which is our main operation,
and, among other things, 500 balls per day.
The moment when people understood,
"This is a powerful guy, FIFA is something else now,"
was the World Cup in Spain, without any doubt.
There was a huge qualitative leap from the darkness of Argentina
to that sunny tournament in Spain in '82, even in the sense of the weather.
The fact that it was in Spain
where a four-decade-long dictatorship had just ended.
Franco.
So it was a completely different situation.
It swapped the shadows for the light.
And the one who was shining was Havelange. As well, right?
There is even a famous scene
in which King Juan Carlos and Havelange arrived together.
And the feeling was that the king was, in fact, Havelange
because of the different posture that he and Juan Carlos had.
It looked like the king in there was Havelange.
My mission as president of FIFA will end
at the same time as the World Cup in France, 1998.
He was never honest enough to support the president of FIFA,
who made him.
Blatter's story is one of betrayal.
I get tired even talking about him.
Two candidates.
The Swiss, Joseph Blatter, against the Swede, Lennart Johansson.
Lennart Johansson wants to apply his European strategy on the world stage.
He is the man behind the evolution of European competitions.
In other football news,
Michel Platini joined Sepp Blatter's campaign this morning in Paris.
He announced his support for Mr. Blatter's bid
to become the next FIFA president.
Basically, Blatter said to himself, "I'm not very popular."
"Although I'm Swiss, I'm not very popular or even not popular at all
with the European federations."
Blatter was aware that he was seen as a rather dull football politician,
and he said to himself, "Here is Michel Platini,
who retired from football,
who seems to have embarked in sports politics."
"He could be an absolutely incredible running mate."
Platini really revolutionized French football.
He revolutionized it on the pitch but also off it.
He really had this incredible technical range,
which made him a unique player.
And so he saw Blatter and was quite impressed by his work rate.
And that's when the idea of this Platini-Blatter ticket emerged.
Platini's role was very important in Europe
because this election was not at all a done deal for Blatter.
Blatter was not the favorite.
When we did the math a few months before the congress,
Blatter was still well behind.
Hello, Mr. Blatter.
And now the elections will begin.
We have two candidates.
The general secretary of FIFA, Mr. Sepp Blatter,
and the president of UEFA, Mr. Lennart Johansson.
Myself, I'm for continuity
of all the development work
that Mr. Havelange and his administration,
in which I was instrumental,
has done during the last few years.
I thank you all.
Ladies and gentlemen, the results for the first round of voting.
One candidate must obtain two-thirds of all the votes,
which is 128 votes.
Mr. Joseph Blatter, 111 votes.
Mr. Lennart Johansson, 80 votes.
Therefore, we must proceed with a second round of voting.
Once again, please applaud Lennart Johansson.
I feel let down, sickened, and fed up.