The Brazilian Football Confederation (Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, CBF) and the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) have signed a landmark Co-operation Agreement to protect Brazilian football from match-fixing and other threats to its integrity.
CBF President Ednaldo Rodrigues Gomes publicly disclosed last year his plans designed with FIFA and CONMEBOL to work with the ICSS and other stakeholders as well as his determination to put an end to any threat to sport integrity in an open letter addressed to the President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, paving the path towards the implementation of a massive national plan to preserve and promote the integrity of football, asking Brazil to sign the Macolin Convention and establish a National Platform as the key national hub dedicated to the co-ordination of the fight against competition manipulation.
As a part of this plan and aligned with FIFA and CONMEBOL, CBF has requested the ICSS to work together on the development of CBF overarching strategy to combat match-fixing, and especially on a national educational and training programmes for the benefit of the Brazilian football athletes, officials, leagues, clubs at all levels and the Confederation itself.
The Cooperation Agreement also envisages activities at the grassroots level to instil the values of football within youth and children, as well as the development of an awareness campaign involving influential Brazilian football players and football legends.
The signing ceremony was attended by CBF President Ednaldo Rodrigues Gomes and ICSS Chairman Mohamed Hanzab among other dignitaries. The signing of the agreement took place at Wembley Stadium in London, the day before a football match between the national teams of Brazil and England.
