Election scheduled for next Sunday (25), will also define the eight vice-presidents of the CBF; Ednaldo Rodrigues was removed from office by the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice
The confirmation that the election for the presidency of the Brazilian Football Confederation () will have a unique plate, with president -elect of the Roraimense Football Federation (FRF), as a new agent, shows that the entity will undergo a reformulation in some of its departments. , removed from office by the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice (TJ-RJ) last Thursday, filed on Monday the withdrawal of the request to resume the command of the CBF. According to Ednaldo, the decision aims to “pacify” Brazilian football, definitely opening the way to Xaud, even believing that there were still legal means to return to office.
However, in addition to Samir Xaud, the election scheduled for next Sunday (25), will also define the eight vice-presidents of the CBF. Some are already part of the current structure of the entity, such as Fernando Sarney, CBF intervener and vice president in the management of Ednaldo, and Gustavo Dias Henrique. Others are new names, such as Michelle Ramalho Cardoso, president of the Paraiba Football Federation (FPF). She will be the first woman to hold this position in the history of the CBF. Complete Flavio Zveiter, Ricardo Gluck Paul, José Vanildo, Ednailson Rozenha and Rubens Angelotti.
Fernando Sarney remains at CBF
Intending intervener and interimly occupying the position of president, Fernando José Macieira Sarney was one of the signatories of the agreement approved by the Supreme Court (), which recognized the election of Ednaldo as legitimate. However, Sarney became one more questioning the authenticity of Colonel Nunes’s signature in the document. Fernando Sarney is 70 years old and is the son of former President of the Republic and Senate, José Sarney (PMDB). He has been at CBF since 1998, having entered the entity as director of government relations. He gained prominence for his diplomatic ability and, in 2015, took over a chair on the FIFA council, appointed by Marco Polo del Nero, who had resigned from the post. He was one of the vice presidents in Ednaldo’s management.
Maranhão has already been the target of the Federal Police (PF), which indicated him for evidence of currency for having an account in China, after he refused to answer all the questions during a statement in Sao Paulo. In another investigation, Operation Faktor, previously called Operation Boi Barrica, Fernando Sarney was indicted for gang formation, irregular financial institution management, money laundering and ideological falsity, suspected of financial movements without registration in the sister’s campaign, Roseana Sarney, by the Government of Maranhão, in 2006. He denied the accusations.
In 2009, Estadão reported information about telephone woers of the operation. Fernando Sarney then asked at the Federal District Court of Justice (TJ-DF) that the newspaper was prevented from publishing the information. Nine years later, in 2018, the then STF Minister Ricardo Lewandowski denied an appeal from Estadão. In 2019 alone, Judge Atalá Correia, of the 12th Civil Court of Brasilia, dismissed the request to deny the merits of the action.
Gustavo Dias Henrique is the first Brasiliense in ten years at CBF
Gustavo Dias Henrique occupies the position of CBF’s Director of Institutional Relations and, in March 2025, was sworn in as one of Ednaldo Rodrigues’ vice-presidents, after the leader’s reelection unanimously. He is the first Brasiliense to join the entity’s vice presidents in the last ten years.
Michelle Ramalho will be the first woman in office
Michelle Ramalho Cardoso is president of the Paraiba Football Federation (FPF) and will be the first woman in history to hold this position. Michelle has a good relationship with Del Nero, former president of CBF. At 47, Paraibana de Campina Grande has been in charge of the FPF since 2018, when they won a balanced dispute against former entity executive director Eduardo Araújo.
Flavio Zveitter is a lawyer and son of Luiz Zveitter
Flavio Zveiter, 43, is a lawyer and teacher. He was president of the Superior Court of Sports Justice (STJD), the highest body of sports justice in Brazil, and served as CBF Vice President of Development and Projects for eight months, between 2022 and 2023. In December 2023, candidate for the presidency of the CBF, but Ednaldo Rodrigues eventually resumed office due to an STF injunction.
Flavio is the son of Luiz Zveiter, judge of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice (TJ-RJ), where he held the presidency in the 2009-2010 biennium. Prior to that, he served as the General Court of Justice from 2007 to 2009. He also chaired the STJD and joined the Ministry of Sports Legal-Sports Studies Commission.
Ricardo Gluck Paul is president of the Pará Federation
Ricardo Augusto Lobo Gluck Paul has been president of the Paraense Football Federation (FPF) since 2022. Ricardo was a Paysandu agent between 2019 and 2020. In the period, he was invited to join the teacher of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).
José Vanildo commands the Rio Grande do Norte Federation since 2007
José Vanildo da Silva presides over the North-Rio-Grande Football Federation (FNF) since 2007. In January 2021 unanimously, clubs and leagues secured a new term to Vanildo, valid until the end of 2026. He has already been reelected and will remain in the presidency by the end of 2030, which will leave him in office for 23 years.
Ednailson Rozenha is a politician and president of the Federation of Amazonas
Ednailson Leite Rozenha runs the Amazonian Football Federation (FAF), having been acclaimed president in mid -2022 and assumed the position in January 2023, replacing Discic Valério Tomaz, who was in charge of the entity for 32 years. At 49, Rozenha also fulfills his first term as a state deputy by Amazonas, affiliated to the Brazilian Women’s Party (PMB).
Rubens Angelotti directs the Santa Catarina Federation
Rubens Renato Angelotti has commanded the Santa Catarina Football Federation (FCF) since 2016, after the death of Delfim de Padua Peixoto Filho, one of the victims of the Chapecoense plane accident on November 29, 2016. In 2018, Angelotti was elected president for a term by 2023. In 2022, he was reelected until April 12, 2027.
*With information from Estadão Content
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