Nicolás Leoz Almirón (10 September 1928 – 28 August 2019) was President of
CONMEBOL (''South American Football Confederation'') from 1986 to 2013. Leoz assumed the presidency in 1986 (succeeding
Teófilo Salinas Fuller) and in February 2006, he was reelected as President for a sixth term. He was
Paraguay
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an and received
Colombian citizenship in 2008. On April 23, 2013, Leoz resigned from both the FIFA Executive Committee and the CONMEBOL presidency, citing health issues.
Before his position as President of CONMEBOL, Leoz was President of the Justice Department of the Paraguayan Basketball Confederation (1957–1959), President of Paraguayan soccer
Club Libertad (1969–1970 and 1974–1977), President of the
Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol
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(1971–1973 and 1979–1985) and Vice President of CONMEBOL (1972–1974 and 1980–1986).
In November 2010 he was alleged by the
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. His childhood was spent in Pirizal, 78 km. in the industrial complex of Carlos Casado, near the
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From 1940 to 1950, Leoz was a sports journalist in radio and newspapers.
In 1957, he studied law at the School of Law and Social Sciences of the UNA (
as a scribe in interrogations; he graduated on December 24th 1957, at 29 years age.
From 1950 to 1962, he was a history teacher at the
and Comercio. He was also a director for an aluminum enterprise and in agricultural livestock.
From 1957 to 1977, he was president of the Tribunal de Justicia de la Confederación Paraguaya de Básquetbol.
*Doctor “Honoris causa” from Universidade of
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