page_title: Ricardo Teixeira
section_title: piauí controversy
hierarchical_section_title: Ricardo Teixeira / piauí controversy
caption_attribution_description: Português: Passeata na Avenida Paulista contra a permanência de Ricardo Teixeira à frente da CBF.
context_page_description: Ricardo Terra Teixeira is the former president of the Brazilian Football Confederation. He was in the office from January 16, 1989 to March 12, 2012. In July 2012 a Swiss prosecutor's report revealed that, during his tenure on FIFA's Executive Committee, he and his former father-in-law Joao Havelange took more than $41 million in bribes in connection with the award of World Cup marketing rights.
context_section_description: The July 2011 issue of the Brazilian magazine piauí published a profile of Teixeira written by journalist Daniela Pinheiro. Pinheiro spent ten days in Switzerland with Teixeira while he was there to attend the 61st FIFA Congress. In the eight page article, Teixeira talked about football politics, the ensuing 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the Brazilian press and corruption allegations against him and other FIFA members. During the course of the interviews, he brushed off the accusations with profanities (such as caguei, a Portuguese swear-word for the verb "to defecate" which also means, roughly, "I couldn't care less") and boasted he was able to do whatever he wanted during the 2014 World Cup including denying press credentials to those who are critical of him or changing match schedules at his own pleasure.
  All of Teixeira's declarations were later confirmed by Rodrigo Paiva, head of public relations for the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). The remarks stirred a lot of controversy in both the Brazilian press and Brazilian society, and sparked the Twitter campaign #foraricardoteixeira ("Out with Ricardo Teixeira").
caption: Demonstration against Teixeira in São Paulo, Brazil, August 2011.
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