The former president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), José Maria Marin, died at the age of 92. He had a delicate state of health, but the cause of death was not disclosed. Marin was hospitalized at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in São Paulo.
Training lawyer, Marin had a long political trajectory. He was a councilman and state deputy for Sao Paulo between the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, he was vice governor of Paulo Maluf and took over the state government in 1982, when Maluf left office to run for elections.
In football, he gained notoriety by heading the Brazilian delegation at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Years later, he assumed the presidency of the CBF in 2012, after the resignation of Ricardo Teixeira, and remained in office until 2015.
Still in 2015, Marin was arrested in Switzerland during a FBI operation investigating a large corruption scheme involving FIFA leaders. He was extradited to the United States, where he was tried and sentenced to prison. Marin returned to Brazil in 2020 after being released during the coronavirus pandemic.
The wake will be held in the afternoon, in the state capital. In an official note, the CBF regretted the death of the former leader.
