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FILE - In this Oct. 27, 1994 file picture Joao Havelange, left, then President of FIFA, and Joseph Blatter, then general secretary, confer during a news conference in New York. FIFA President Sepp Blatter says world football's governing body should remove the honorary presidency it bestowed on its disgraced former boss Joao Havelange. Blatter told Swiss weekly Sonntags Blick in an interview published Sunday July 15, 2012 that Havelange "has to go." In May at a FIFA congress in Budapest he had led a standing ovation for the ailing 96-year-old Havelange. Pressure on Blatter has grown after FIFA published a Swiss prosecutor's report Wednesday confirming Havelange accepted kickbacks from marketing agency ISL in the 1990s, while Blatter was a senior FIFA official. Blatter acknowledges he knew about payments but insisted they were legal in Switzerland at the time. (AP Photo/ L.M. Otero,File)