Samir Xaud discards changing the color from the uniform to red; He gave an interview to journalists on the day of his election
In an interview with journalists on Sunday (25.MAI.2025), the new president of the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation), Samir Xaud, said that “Brazilian shirt is green and yellow ”.
Rumors about changing the color of the shirt to red came after the English specialized portal Footy Headlines Having published, on Monday (28.ab.2025), a report on the possible change in the uniform of the selection. On April 29, the CBF an official note. “The standards in traditional and blue yellow colors will be kept ”said at the time. Xaud reinforced the position on Sunday (25.mai).
Quaest survey released on April 30 showed that 90% of the mentions analyzed on social networks were. Internet users.
See the full note after the update:
“The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) clarifies that the recently released images of alleged uniforms of the Brazilian National Team for the 2026 World Cup are not official. Neither CBF nor Nike formally released details about the new line of the national team. The entity reaffirms its status (standards in traditional and blue yellow colors will still be maintained) defined in conjunction with Nike.”
The leader of the Roraima Football Federation was a single candidate, replacing Ednaldo Rodrigues, who was dismissed by the Rio court. He had 103 of the 141 votes. It will command by 2029 the entity that had record revenues in 2024 of R $ 1.5 billion.
Xaud had great support: 25 of the 27 state federations reported vote on him, as well as clubs such as Palmeiras, Vasco and Grêmio. His election, however, was marked by the boycott of 21 of the 40 clubs of series A and B, which did not participate in the vote in protest against the current model of governance of the entity.
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