Corinthians is now chaired by Osmar Stabile, 71, a figure that has been part of their politics since the beginning of the century. The businessman interimly assumed the club’s largest position after the removal of Augusto Melo, in the vote of the Deliberative Council on Monday night (26).
It will be a general assembly of members who will give the definitive response to impeachment – between June and July, with date yet to be confirmed. If the associates endorsed the board’s decision, the board itself will make an election for a famping mandate until December 2026.
Augusto promised to fight “until the end” to return to the president’s chair. Meanwhile, who plays the boat is Stabile, who was the first vice president on the plate of Melo and distanced himself throughout his term, which began in January 2024 and surrounded by complaints-the president was indicted on suspicion of criminal association, qualified theft and money laundering.
Osmar kept his statutory position without effectively participating in the management. If he did not rely on impeachment, against him he did not fought. And now, even if provisionally, he has the position with which he dreamed of decades.
“The valuable pages of achievements and struggles from Sport Club Corinthians Paulista can no longer be stained by scandals. We have always been a club that knew how to overcome moments of turbulence with race, courage and, above all, with the strength of union,” he said in his inaugural speech.
Counselor since 2002, was appointed by Alberto Dualib, president of the club from 1993 to 2007. Vice President of Land Sports, landed from the board in the midst of another impeachment process, which resulted in the resignation of Dualib.
Stabile then presented himself as a candidate for the time mandate of the occasion, in an indirect election, defined by the Council. In an interview with Sheetpublished on election day, on October 9, 2007, said: “The team is not as bad as everyone speaks, the idea is to maintain the backbone.”
Andrés Sanchez won. And, less than two months, that “not so bad” team was demoted to the second division of the Brazilian Championship.
Bend Steel’s founding partner, a machining, Tornearia and weld company, Stabile was again defeated by Andrés in the 2009 election. Then, as deputy, also lost in the plates headed by Antonio Roque Citadini in 2012 and 2018.
Already in 2019, he drew attention by taking over the authorship of a pro-dictatorship military video released by the government of Jair Bolsonaro. In a note about the 1964 coup, he said that “our armed efforts avoided greater political ills for the nation.”
Now, he presides over a club that positioned himself against the dictatorship, played in the 80s with the word “democracy” on his shirt and had players filled with the Dops (Department of Political and Social Order, the repressive organ of the dictatorship). Therefore, in his first interview, he had to do a retraction. Or almost that.
“I wouldn’t even like to talk about this in Corinthians, because we can’t talk about politics and religion. I apologized to those who were harmed. I missed, I say I was wrong, and I’m here to say: the president of Brazil is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and I hope it works, I have companies and I want Brazil to work.”
