Read the manifesto signed by 19 Federations

“Brazilian football lives a decisive moment. It is urgent to face structural challenges that have limited the potential of our football for years. We need a balanced calendar, professional arbitration, quality meadows, safety in stadiums and strengthened competitions.

Because this happens, it is essential to guarantee institutional stability to the CBF. We must transform the current judgment and instability page that for over a decade compromises the correct functioning of the entity and the progress of Brazilian football. It is also a time to save the internal autonomy of the CBF, now suffocated by an excessively centralized and disconnected structure of the cases that make up the national football ecosystem.

In addition to stability, the scenario requires a renewal of ideas, practices and leaders, as well as the definitive professionalization of the management structures. CBF must be an example of governance, efficiency and transparency – and must also be the home of all those who build Brazilian football, with a healthy, stimulating and decentralized environment, in which everyone can actively contribute to the improvement of sport that constitutes the true national heritage.

United for this purpose, we are committed to building a presidential candidacy and the Vice Presidents of the CBF engaged in a new cycle for Brazilian football: more democratic, more integrated and more open to everyone’s participation. We want a strong CBF, dear inside, admired outside – and again loved by all those who make football the soul of our country. “