The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and the Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA), the world’s largest coalition in the field of Sport Integrity, formalised this afternoon in Rio de Janeiro, a decisive co-operation agreement for the integrity of Brazilian football.
With this historic agreement, CBF joins SIGA in placing Good Governance and Integrity at the top of their agenda, initiating a comprehensive and in-depth process of reforms aimed at enhancing the integrity, reputation, and credibility of football in Brazil, a country that has won the FIFA World Cup five times.
The partnership now established follows the close collaboration that SIGA has maintained for several years with various international and national sports organisations, such as UEFA, the European Rugby League, the European Aquatics (LEN), the International Chess Federation (FIDE), the São Paulo Football Federation (FPF), or the Portuguese Professional Football League (Liga Portugal), in addition to various leagues and national federations.
Signed by the leaders of both institutions, the agreement aims to address the urgent challenges faced by Brazilian football, promoting the modernisation of the sector, the qualification of its agents, and a culture of integrity at all levels, in accordance with SIGA’s Universal Standards.
Ednaldo Rodrigues, President of CBF, highlighted the relevance of the agreement signed with SIGA: “We have established a very important partnership to fight against all types of criminality affecting football, such as match-fixing, money laundering, racism, and harassment. With solid expertise in all these topics, SIGA is the world’s largest institution in Sport Integrity. They operate independently, always ensuring that sport becomes cleaner and more transparent. That’s what CBF is pursuing too. SIGA will work with the Integrity Unit at CBF, which has been engaged with all the major institutions in the world.
“CBF’s tolerance for any type of criminal activities in soccer is zero. Our work will be based on this partnership, and we will keep doing what we have always done, also in conjunction with FIFA. As a FIFA member, we will continue to fly this flag. Today we took a very important step, and it will not be the only one. We will share more relevant news and partnerships in the near future”.
Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros, Global CEO of SIGA and President and CEO of SIGA LATIN AMERICA, said: “Brazilian Football has a world-wide significance that nobody can deny. This significance is not unrelated to its five FIFA World Cup titles and the genius with which Pele, Garrincha, Zico, Sócrates, Ronaldo, and many others elevated football as an art. Brazilian football, however, can and should be more than its past glories. It can and must look to the future and realise its potential. To be modern, competitive, and sustainable. With a reformist vision, future strategy, and long-term objectives.”