RIO DE JANEIRO, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian Joao Havelange, the former president of the International Federation of Football Associated (FIFA), was recuperating on Tuesday after an intervention in which he was collocated a pacemaker.

    The Samaritan Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, where the operation was taken place on Monday night, abstained from detailling in a communique the date in which Havelange would be released.

    Havelange, 89, was hospitalized on Monday night due to a cardiac arrhythmia was was operated by surgeon Joaa Mansur Filho.

    Havelange, who presided the FIFA from 1974 to 1998, is a honorary president of the world's soccer governing body and a member of the International Olympic Committee. Enditem