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March 13 – Two-time World Cup winner Ronaldo (pictured) has withdrawn from the race to be president of the Confederation of Brazilian Soccer (CBF) after failing to drum up sufficient help among the many state federations.
He wrote on social media: “On my first contact with the 27 regional federations, I discovered 23 closed doorways. If the vast majority of decision-makers imagine that Brazilian soccer is in good arms, it doesn’t matter what I feel.
“The federations refused to obtain me of their properties, on the grounds of their satisfaction with the present administration and help for [Rodrigues’] re-election. I used to be unable to current my venture, put ahead my concepts and hearken to them as I might have appreciated. There was no openness to dialogue.”
Final December Ronaldo introduced his intention to run in subsequent 12 months’s election primarily based on a marketing campaign to revive the status of the Brazilian recreation. The five-time world champions have fallen on arduous occasions within the worldwide recreation whereas the CBF has lurched from one institutional disaster to the subsequent.
In December 2023 present president Ednaldo Rodrigues was faraway from the presidency by an area court docket earlier than being reinstated following intervention from FIFA. Rodrigues serves as a member of the FIFA Council, having ousted Fernando Sarney.
Ronaldo, the two-time Ballon d’Or winner, was all the time going to wrestle to make inroads within the politics of the Brazilian recreation, with the 27 state federations serving as the standard powerbase of the CBF. They maintain three votes every, whereas the 20 Serie A golf equipment have two votes every and the 20 Serie B golf equipment one vote every.
“The statute provides the federations the strongest vote, so it’s clear that there’s no method I can run. A lot of the native leaders help the incumbent president. That’s their proper and I respect it, no matter my convictions,” concluded Ronaldo.
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