{{Short description|Previous UEFA president}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jacques Georges | image = Jacques Georges (1987).jpg | caption = Georges in 1987 | order1 = 4th | office1 = President of UEFA | term_start1 = 26 June 1984 | term_end1 = 19 April 1990<br>{{small|Acting: 12 August 1983 – 26 June 1984}} | predecessor1 = Artemio Franchi | successor1 = Lennart Johansson | office = President of the French Football Federation | term_start = 1968 | term_end = 1972 | predecessor = Antoine Chiarisoli | successor = Fernand Sastre | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|5|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle, France | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|2|25|1916|5|30|df=yes}} | death_place = Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle, France | alma_mater = HEC Paris | occupation = }} '''Jacques Georges''' (30 May 1916 – 25 February 2004) was the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) from 1968 until 1972 and the 4th president of UEFA (1983–1990).
==Biography== In April 1989, he caused controversy by describing a minority of Liverpool F.C. supporters as "beasts", wrongly believing that hooliganism was the cause of the Hillsborough disaster which ultimately resulted in the deaths of 97 of the English club's fans.<ref name="Scraton2011">{{cite book|author=Phil Scraton|title=Hillsborough - The Truth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=whDM5Z2OuOMC&pg=PA116|date=13 May 2011|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|isbn=978-1-78057-041-9|pages=116–117}}</ref> He issued a swift apology for his comments upon discovering that hooliganism did not cause the tragedy.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-18-sp-2304-story.html|title=European Soccer Chief Retracts Harsh Words in Stadium Deaths|date=18 April 1989|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
He died in February 2004 at the age of 88.
Georges was a graduate of HEC Paris.<ref>[https://www.leparisien.fr/sports/jacques-georges-est-mort-27-02-2004-2004786942.php Jacques Georges est mort]</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
{{S-start}} {{Succession box | before = Artemio Franchi | title = President of UEFA | years =1983–1990 | after = Lennart Johansson}} {{S-end}} {{FFF Presidents}} {{UEFA presidents}}
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