An independent study on the future of Brazilian football, conducted by Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA), represented by SIGA Latin America, in cooperation with the National Congress of Brazil’s Sports Committee, was launched on Wednesday.

This study will address the urgent challenges facing Brazilian football and propose the necessary reforms, within the framework of SIGA Latin America’s strategy to modernize the most popular game in Brazil and in line with the institutional expansion that the organization is witnessing in Latin America at a time when the need to enhance the highest standards of integrity is increasing and governance in sports in this region.

On this occasion, a cooperation agreement was signed between SIGA Latin America and the National Congress of Brazil’s Sports Committee to develop integrity in Brazilian football, which will enhance Brazils efforts in the areas of combating corruption, especially after it announced assumption of G20 rotating presidency and hosting of G20 Summit 2024 in Rio de Janeiro.

SIGA Vice-President Mohammed bin Hanzab, who is also founder and chairman of the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), said the new partnership with the National Congress of Brazil will help protect the Brazilian league and open new horizons of cooperation with Latin American countries in the field of protecting sport from corruption.

Hanzab hailed the study as a continuation of the efforts of ICSS and its affiliated organizations, such as SIGA, in developing mechanisms aimed at combating corruption in sports, amid partnerships with the most important international organizations and prestigious academic institutions around the world such as France’s Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, Harvard University, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, UNESCO, World Health Organization, the G20, and the EU.

This partnership produced BITEFIX project in April, which aims to exchange information and protect data to combat match-fixing and illegal betting in sports.

Global CEO of SIGA Emanuel de Medeiros stressed the importance of cooperating with the Brazilian authorities to achieve the necessary reforms in Brazilian football and to ensure adherence to the standards of integrity, transparency and governance.

HE Congressman and Head of Parliamentary Front for the Modernization of Football, Eduardo Bandeira de Mello said the new cooperation with SIGA aims to establish mechanisms to develop football in Brazil, taking into account compliance with the rules of financial fair play and environmental and social governance standards. (MORE)

Source: Qatar News Agency