BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine Football Association president Julio Humberto Grondona died in hospital on Wednesday at the age of 82, South American football's governing body CONMEBOL said.
Grondona, who became AFA chief in 1979 during the former military dictatorship and was senior vice-president of world football's governing body FIFA, died at the Mitre Sanatorium in Buenos Aires after suffering an aortic aneurysm.
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