Fernando José Macieira Ferreira Araújo da Costa Sarney (born 7 January 1956) is a Brazilian football administrator and a member of the
FIFA Council
The FIFA Council (formerly the FIFA Executive Committee) is an institution of FIFA (the governing body of association football, futsal and beach football). It is the main decision-making body of the organization in the intervals of FIFA Congres ...
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Personal life and career
He is the son of the former President of Brazil
José Sarney
José Sarney de Araújo Costa (; born José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa; 24 April 1930) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and writer who served as 31st president of Brazil from 1985 to 1990. He briefly served as the 20th vice president of ...
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In 2009, Sarney won a court injunction, preventing the newspaper ''
O Estado de São Paulo'' from publishing "his indictment on corruption charges". The newspaper published an article linking Sarney to a political scandal, ''Senate Secret Acts''.
Sarney has been a FIFA Council member since 2015.
References
FIFA officials
Living people
Green Party (Brazil) politicians
Democratic Social Party politicians
Brazilian football managers
1956 births
Children of presidents of Brazil
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