AME Many portraits have appeared of FIFA President Dr. Jo o Havelange during his six terms in office, not least in October 1994 when he was honoured as Person of the Year by the US-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. But most of these portraits have been composed in words, and few in oils. During the Under-17 World Championship World Championship in Ecuador in 1995, the President sat as a willing model for one of Latin America's most renowned artists, Pablo Guayasamin, at his studio in Quito. The result was a striking modern portrait in Guayasamin's distinctive style Football, the old-timers will say, has changed beyond all recognition since their day. And when we look at film footage from the 1950s or 1960s, we have to admit they often seem right, not to mention the less revealing flittering pictures and fading photographs of earlier decades.
Small changes can mean a lot, in football as elsewhere.
But the changes should only be minor and cautious. And as the small print is revised on the Laws of the Game, FIFA is forging ahead with improvements and innovations to make the game itself ever more attractive to an ever wider active and non-active public. All rights reserved.