Julio Humberto Grondona

Also known as: Grondona

Jurisdiction: Argentina

AFA president 1979–2014 and a senior FIFA official. The reviewed DOJ materials do not identify Grondona by name as charged or tried; a 2017 DOJ criminal information refers to "Soccer Official #1", described as the then-president of AFA, and cooperating-witness testimony implicated Grondona. The allegation was not adjudicated against him (§26.2).

Roles

  • President, AFA — from 1979 to 2014
  • FIFA Executive Committee / Senior Vice-President / Chairman, FIFA Finance Committee — from 1988 to 2014

Timeline appearances

  1. 2017-03-29Retirement & return (2016)Classification: Confirmed fact
    Claudio Tapia elected AFA president, ending the Normalising Committee period

Relationships

Sources

Independent sources:
1
Total references:
1

Secondary reporting

Elecciones en AFA: Claudio 'Chiqui' Tapia fue elegido como nuevo presidente

La Nación · 2017-03-29

RetrievedLanguage: esIndependent source

Source for the verified 40-3 vote count and the Fox-Turner TV-rights figures.

Explicit limitations

  • Exact content of the article-87 statute amendment.