<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Former FIFA president Joao Havelange has been admitted to an intensive care unit with heart and breathing problems.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   This comes three weeks after the 95-year-old Brazilian was hospitalized for a serious bacterial infection in his joints.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Joao Mansur Filho, a doctor at Rio de Janeiro&#39;s Samaritano hospital, said Havelange was breathing with the aid of a ventilator after suffering &quot;cardiac and respiratory insufficiency&quot; Monday.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   He had been released from hospital last week after responding well to antibiotics prescribed for his septic arthritis, Xinhua reported.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Havelange led FIFA from 1974 to 1998. Under his leadership FIFA grew from a small organization with a handful of employees to a multi-billion-dollar sporting and global brand.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   His career was tainted by allegations of corruption, including claims he received kickbacks from former FIFA marketing partner ISL, which he had denied.u00a0</div>

Joao Havelange faces acute breathing and heart issues and has been rushed to the ICU.

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