ICSS President Mohamed Khanzab and CBF President Edonardo Rodríguez Gómez today signed a landmark cooperation agreement to protect Brazilian football from match-fixing.
LONDON, March 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WEMBLEY STADIUM — The Brazilian Football Confederation (Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, CBF) and the International Center for Sport Security (ICSS) today announced plans to protect Brazilian football from matches. signed a long-term cooperation agreement. – Modifications and other threats to its integrity.
In an open letter to Brazilian President Ruiz last year, CBF President Edonardo Rodríguez Gómez outlined the plans he had laid out in collaboration with FIFA and CONMEBOL to work with the ICSS and other stakeholders, and the sport's He publicly announced his determination to end all threats to his integrity. Inácio Lula da Silva paved the way for the implementation of large-scale national plans to preserve and promote the integrity of football, leading Brazil to sign the Treaty of Macorin and establish a major body dedicated to the coordination of football. He called for the establishment of a national platform as a national base. Combating competitive manipulation.
As part of this plan, in collaboration with FIFA and CONMEBOL, the CBF has commissioned the ICSS to develop a comprehensive strategy for the CBF to combat match-fixing, and in particular to develop a national education and training program for the benefit of Brazilian football. I asked them to cooperate. Athletes, officials, leagues, clubs at all levels, and the federation itself.
The cooperation agreement also envisages grassroots efforts to instill soccer values among youth and children, as well as the development of awareness campaigns involving influential Brazilian soccer players and soccer legends. .
Furthermore, the agreement laid the foundations for Brazil as an incubator of best practices that can foster joint international cooperation activities that support other federations and nations seeking to strengthen their sporting integrity systems.
At the signing ceremony, CBF President Edonardo Rodríguez Gómez said: “As we wrote in our letter to President Lula, the CBF has adopted the same measures introduced by the world's major sports bodies to protect the integrity of sport, and we are taking inspiration from FIFA and CONMEBOL. Build a unique set of initiatives to combat match-fixing, including collaboration with the International Center for Sport Safety (ICSS), the Sports Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA), and the Task Force to Investigate Match-Fixing and Manipulating Results in Sports. We will support public authorities in their mission to prosecute criminals involved in We aim to strengthen CBF’s role as a fosterer of good practice in this field.”
ICSS Chairman Mohamed Khanzab added: “When CBF told us about their plans to position Brazil, with its population of over 200 million and even more Brazilian football fans around the world, as an international benchmark in the field of integrity, we We understand that there are standards. It is an opportunity to put all the knowledge and instruments that we have developed over the last 12 years into practice on the ground. To underline the global dimension of football, we decided to sign the agreement here at Wembley, one of the world's most iconic venues for football.”
ICSS CEO Massimiliano Montanari concluded: The first time was during the preparations for the 2024 FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, when we implemented a multi-year program in collaboration with both international and national authorities to protect children from the risks associated with major sporting events. was. Also, this time, youth and children will be the main beneficiaries by preserving the purity of Brazilian football and ensuring that they can always draw inspiration from their idols as role models in the world of football, without any manipulation or fiction. You will be one of them. It's a threat to integrity. ”
The signing of the agreement took place at London's Wembley Stadium the day before a soccer match between Brazil and England.
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