Brazilian Football Confederation Board Fear Inquiry and See Power Slip Through Their Fingers

07/09/2014 - 11h59

The president and vice-president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, José Maria Marin and Marco Polo Del Nero fear that Brazil's humiliation may encourage investigations about the Confederation and that their positions within the entity are under risk, as a result of this.

The two representatives know that football or political rivals will attempt to take advantage from the disastrous performance of Brazil's national team to intervene in the Brazilian Football Confederation's business.

The fear is that a new public inquiry may be in order to investigate the Confederation. The public inquiry reached the minimum number of signatures required for an investigation to take place at the end of 2013.

However, so as not to interfere with the World Cup, the Brazilian government negotiated with senators and support to the investigation was blocked.

Marin and Del Nero fear that the same thing might happen, at the end of this World Cup, that happened when Brazil lost the final in 1998. At the time, after the defeat a public investigation was being though up, which subsequently started in the year 2000.

Last March, Marin was realistic when he said that a defeat would leave him in a delicate situation. "We are in purgatory. If we win, we will go to heaven. If we lose, we will all go to hell. I told this to Scolari', the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation told Folha.

Marin was practically cornered by the government. He is also at the helm of the Local Organizing Committee of the World Cup in Brazil, and he has not been granted his wish to meet President Dilma Rousseff.

The Brazilian President does not hide her sympathy for the social movement entitled Common Sense F.C., organized by the country's biggest football stars, aimed to change Brazilian football and is thus in opposition to the Brazilian Football Confederation.

Marin and Del Nero are under accusation of overspending since they came into power in 2012, after Ricardo Teixeira stepped down.

Translated by CRISTIANE COSTA LIMA

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