By Robbie Blakeley and Ségolène Poirier, Contributing Reporters RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The world football (soccer) governing body, FIFA, and the Brazil Ministry of Sport announced that the Brazilian government will have a permanent member within the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the 2014 World Cup, as a measure to help avoid problems and [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – An investigation by the Polícia Federal (Federal Police) has found links between Brazilian construction giant Delta Construção, who walked out on the Transcarioca Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) consortium last week, and the now infamous Carlinhos Cachoeira (Waterfall) – the businessman at the center of [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Nearly three quarters of people living in Rio de Janeiro now feel safer than three years ago, according to a survey carried out by agency NBS, O Globo newspaper reports. The study’s results, released on Thursday, show 74 percent of those living in Rio [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, has visited Brazil as part of a wider Latin American tour which also takes in Colombia and Chile. The visit, his first both to Brazil and Latin America in the role, was touted as an attempt to [...]
By Robbie Blakeley, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Football (soccer) is known in Brazil as o jogo bonito (the beautiful game) and is a concept embraced by people spanning the nation’s vastly differing social classes. Now with the world’s most popular sport bringing its most illustrious prize, the World Cup, to these shores [...]
By Ségolène Poirier, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The new Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo minimized on Thursday, March 22nd, the impact of the delays in the organization of the 2014 World Cup. Rebelo was named Sports Minister in November 2011 following the resignation of Orlando Silva under corruption allegations, and assured the [...]
By Robbie Blakeley, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The resignation of Ricardo Teixiera, president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) from 1989 until 2012, is seen by many of Brazil’s sporting press as the green light Brazilian football needed to move to a system more compatible with the world calendar. After over [...]
By Robbie Blakeley, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Ricardo Teixeira, former head of the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) and World Cup Local Organizing Committee (LOC), resigned as the head of both bodies Monday afternoon following months of corruption scandals which refused to be brushed aside. Teixeira had been atop the CBF since 1989. [...]
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In report published yesterday by the Folha do São Paulo newspaper, Ricardo Teixeira, president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), has been linked to a company under investigation for corruption charges. Ailanto Marketing is being investigated for fiddling expenses surrounding a friendly [...]
By Robbie Blakeley, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke was in Brazil last week to inspect the nation’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup. The Frenchman spent two days in Rio de Janeiro to speak to the city’s associated press about his impressions, as well as outlining FIFA’s [...]
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