Joao Havelange, 96, has resigned as Fifa's honorary president after a report ruled he had taken bribes. The Brazilian was described as "morally and ethically reproachable" for taking kickbacks from a World Cup rights marketing agency. The report by Fifa's ethics chairman Hans-Joachim Eckert also claimed Nicolas Leoz had received bribes. Leoz, 84, resigned from the governing body's executive committee last week, citing health and personal reasons. The Paraguayan was accused in the report of being "not fully candid" in his explanations over the affair. However, while the report says that payments made in the 1990s to Havelange, who was Fifa president from 1974 to 1988, Leoz and former Fifa executive Ricardo Teixeira, Havelange's son-in-law, qualified as bribes, they were not crimes at the time. (FA)
