Tag: Brazilian Football Confederation

• Friday, May 16th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

  Brazilian Football Confederation chief sacked... Again

  

  A Rio de Janeiro court ordered Thursday the dismissal of Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) President Ednaldo Rodrigues, claiming his appointment to the position was null since it involved a suspected forged signature by former CBF president Antonio Carlos Nunes de Lima, who has been deemed mentally incapable at the time of signing.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Brazilian Football Confederation approves equal pay for women and men's national teams

  

  The Brazilian Football Confederation says it agreed in March to pay women’s national team players the same as their peers on the men’s side, it was reported Wednesday. Brazil thus becomes one of the few countries to adopt an equal pay policy for both women’s and men’s football.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 01:05 UTC

  Brazilian politics, football and bribes, so closely interlinked

  

  When the former boss of Brazilian football was arrested in Zurich in a 2015 graft case that would see him sentenced to prison, his successor in the job didn't lose a minute - he got on the first plane to Rio de Janeiro and didn't look back.