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Fernand Sastre

Age: 74

co-president of the French World Cup organizing committee which led France's drive to host the tournament beginning in 1989; Sastre was also a longtime official with the French Football Federation; he died three days after the 1998 championship began; of lung cancer

Died: Paris, June 13, 1998

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