CBF rejects claims that Brazil squad selection are influenced by sponsor

  The Brazilian Football Federation has issued a statement to reject reports that commercial partner ISE has too much influence over the selection of Brazil squads for international friendlies. Sao Paulo-based newspaper Estadão claimed at the weekend to have obtained a contractual agreement between the CBF and ISE, a firm based in the Cayman Islands […]
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2015-05-19 17:22:00

 

The Brazilian Football Federation has issued a statement to reject reports that commercial partner ISE has too much influence over the selection of Brazil squads for international friendlies.
Sao Paulo-based newspaper Estadão claimed at the weekend to have obtained a contractual agreement between the CBF and ISE, a firm based in the Cayman Islands with no employees, which suggested the former have a say on the selection process. The contract allegedly states that the Brazil head coach, a position currently held by Dunga, is obliged to pick his squad from a set list of players, the so-called “A-Team”, while the CBF has to show ISE a medical report if one of its stars is unavailable due to injury. However, the CBF has now denied that there is any truth in Estadão’s claims and insisted that Dunga is free to to pick whichever players he wants. An official CBF statement read: “Reports published in Estadão have led to unfounded suspicions of irregularities regarding the contract between the CBF and ISE. The CBF strongly denies any such malicious insinuations and would like to make it clear that it has not ‘sold’ the national team as the paper claims. The coaches will always be the ones in charge of picking the players. They have always played the best players and will always continue to do so. The contract between the CBF and ISE is not a secret and large parts of it have been published before. The people of Brazil can all see which players are called up for the national team.”

The Brazilian Football Federation has issued a statement to reject reports that commercial partner ISE has too much influence over the selection of Brazil squads for international friendlies.

São Paulo-based newspaper Estadão claimed at the weekend to have obtained a contractual agreement between the CBF and ISE, a firm based in the Cayman Islands with no employees, which suggested the former have a say on the selection process. The contract allegedly states that the Brazil head coach, a position currently held by Dunga, is obliged to pick his squad from a set list of players, the so-called “A-Team”, while the CBF has to show ISE a medical report if one of its stars is unavailable due to injury. However, the CBF has now denied that there is any truth in Estadão’s claims and insisted that Dunga is free to to pick whichever players he wants. An official CBF statement read: “Reports published in Estadão have led to unfounded suspicions of irregularities regarding the contract between the CBF and ISE. The CBF strongly denies any such malicious insinuations and would like to make it clear that it has not ‘sold’ the national team as the paper claims. The coaches will always be the ones in charge of picking the players. They have always played the best players and will always continue to do so. The contract between the CBF and ISE is not a secret and large parts of it have been published before. The people of Brazil can all see which players are called up for the national team.”

 

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